Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 39

Mother badger chose the most tender red meat, and soon over a bed of coals she broiled the venison.

Who acts: Mother badger, bear · What happens: choose, tender, broil · To what, where: red meat, venison, bed

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 (Mother badger, bear), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 badger	compound
2	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	nsubj
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 most	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 tender	advmod
6	tender	tender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	ccomp
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meat	amod
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tender	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 broiled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 broiled	cc
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 bed	advmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bed	det
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broiled	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 coals	case
16	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bed	nmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 broiled	nsubj
18	broiled	broil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 venison	det
20	venison	venison	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broiled	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	choose	past	Mother badger			tree rules
2	tender	present	Mother badger not said here	red meat		tree rules
3	broil	past	bear	the venison	a bed of coals	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent venison=Patient

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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