Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 36

Hereupon the mother badger took long strides across the room, and as she had to pass in front of the strange visitor, she said: “Ah han!

Who acts: Hereupon · What happens: take, have, pass, say · To what, where: long strides, room, front · 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 (Hereupon), 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	Hereupon	Hereupon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 badger	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 badger	compound
4	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hereupon	appos
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strides	amod
7	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pass	mark
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pass	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 visitor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 visitor	det
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 visitor	amod
23	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 front	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 han	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 han	punct
29	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	30 han	discourse
30	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	ccomp
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	Hereupon	long strides	the room	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stride=Theme
2	have	past	Hereupon			tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	Hereupon not said here		front of the strange visitor	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	Hereupon			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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