Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 75
“Wa-ough!” he roared, and by force hurled the badgers out.
Who acts: Wa ough · What happens: roar, hurl out · To what, where: badgers
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 (Wa ough), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ough | punct |
| 2 | Wa | Wa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ough | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wa | punct |
| 4 | ough | ough | NOUN | _ | 8 roared | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 ough | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ough | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 roared | nsubj |
| 8 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hurled | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 force | case |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hurled | obl |
| 13 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 roared | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 badgers | det |
| 15 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hurled | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hurled | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | Wa ough | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurl out | past | Wa ough not said here | the badgers | by force | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent badger=Theme by force=Destination |
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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