Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 58
From the farther end of the room mother badger muttered over her bead work: “Yes, you grew strong from our well-filled bowls.”
Who acts: you, guest · What happens: mutter, grow, fill, work · To what, where: farther end · 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 (you, 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 3 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 end | amod |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 muttered | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 badger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 badger | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | compound |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 badger | compound |
| 9 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 10 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 work | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bead | bead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 work | compound |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 muttered | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 17 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 20 grew | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Yes | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 muttered | conj |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 bowls | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bowls | nmod:poss |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 filled | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 26 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bowls | amod |
| 27 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 strong | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 strong | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert | past | from the farther end of the mother badger | over guest's bead work | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | past | you | strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill in a quote | participle | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | work | guest | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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