Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 67
Quietly the father badger spoke: “I fed you.
Who acts: father badger · What happens: speak, feed · To what, where: you · 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 (father badger), 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 | Quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 badger | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 badger | compound |
| 4 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 fed | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fed | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fed | nsubj |
| 9 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 fed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the father badger | quietly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feed in a quote | past | the father badger = badger | you | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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