Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 53

Surprised by the strange behavior of the guest who remained standing upon the rug, leaning his round back against the wall, father badger queried: “How, my friend!

Who acts: father badger, guest · What happens: surprise, remain, stand, lean, query · To what, where: rug, round back, wall, friend

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 (father badger, guest), 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	Surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 queried	advcl
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 behavior	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 behavior	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 behavior	amod
5	behavior	behavior	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Surprised	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 guest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guest	det
8	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 behavior	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 remained	nsubj
10	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 guest	acl:relcl
11	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 remained	xcomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 rug	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rug	det
14	rug	rug	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leaning	punct
16	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 standing	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 back	nmod:poss
18	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 back	amod
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaning	obj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 wall	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaning	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 queried	punct
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 badger	compound
25	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 queried	nsubj
26	queried	query	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 queried	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 How	punct
29	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 queried	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 friend	punct
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friend	nmod:poss
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 queried	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 queried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surprise	participle	father badger not said here			by the strange behavior of the guest	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	remain	past	the guest				tree rules
3	stand	gerund	the guest not said here		the rug		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rug=Location
4	lean	gerund	the guest not said here	crackling's round back	the wall		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme against wall=Destination
5	query	past	father badger	my friend			tree rules

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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