Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 68
I called you friend, though you came here a stranger and a beggar.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: call, come · To what, where: you, stranger · 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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beggar | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 beggar | det |
| 14 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stranger | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | I | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | you | a stranger and a beggar | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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