Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 29

Though he was a stranger and his strong paws and jaws frightened the small badgers, the father said, “How, how, friend!

Who acts: foot, strong paws, father · What happens: be, frighten, say · To what, where: stranger, small badgers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, strong paws, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Though	though	SCONJ	_	5 stranger	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stranger	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stranger	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stranger	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 paws	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 paws	nmod:poss
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 paws	amod
9	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stranger	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jaws	cc
11	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 paws	conj
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 paws	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 badgers	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 badgers	amod
15	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 frightened	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stranger	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 father	det
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 How	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 How	punct
22	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 said	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 friend	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	conj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	foot	a stranger and foot's strong paws and jaws	tree rules
2	frighten	past	foot's strong paws and jaws not said here	the small badgers	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus badger=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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