Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 70

Mother badger, in her excited way, had pierced hard through the buckskin and stuck her fingers repeatedly with her sharp awl until she had laid aside her work.

Who acts: friend · What happens: pierce, stick, lay, work · To what, where: Mother badger, fingers

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 (friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 badger	compound
2	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pierced	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
6	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 badger	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 badger	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pierced	aux
10	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 pierced	advmod
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 buckskin	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 buckskin	det
14	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pierced	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stuck	cc
16	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pierced	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fingers	nmod:poss
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stuck	obj
19	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	16 stuck	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 awl	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 awl	nmod:poss
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 awl	amod
23	awl	awl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stuck	obl
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 laid	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laid	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 laid	aux
27	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 stuck	advcl
28	aside	aside	ADP	_	30 work	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 work	nmod:poss
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pierced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pierce	past · perfect · passive		Mother badger and friend's excited way	through the buckskin; hard property	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: subject=Instrument through buckskin=Patient
2	stick	past		friend's fingers	with friend's sharp awl; repeatedly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent finger=Destination with awl=Theme
3	lay	past · perfect	friend		aside friend's work	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	work		friend			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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