Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 35

Give me meat to eat, my friend.”

Who acts: you · What happens: give, eat · To what, where: meat, me

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 (you), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meat	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 friend	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	meat	me			my friend obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meat=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	meat not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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