Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 69
For the sake of my little ones leave us in peace.”
What happens: leave · To what, where: us, peace
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 sake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sake | det |
| 3 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ones | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sake | nmod |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 peace | case |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | us | peace | for the sake of my little ones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme in peace=Location |
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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