Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 80

The father and mother badger, having gained their feet, picked up their kicking little babes, and, wailing aloud, drew the air into their flattened lungs till they could stand alone upon their feet.

Who acts: father, badgers · What happens: gain, pick up, kick, wail, draw, flatten · To what, where: feet, little babes, air, flattened lungs

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, badgers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gained	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 badger	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 badger	compound
5	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
7	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gained	aux
8	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gained	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 picked	punct
12	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gained	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 picked	compound:prt
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 kicking	nsubj
15	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 picked	advcl
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 babes	amod
17	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kicking	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drew	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wailing	punct
21	wailing	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 drew	ccomp
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	21 wailing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wailing	punct
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gained	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 lungs	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lungs	nmod:poss
29	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 lungs	amod
30	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drew	obl
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 stand	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stand	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 stand	aux
34	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 drew	advcl
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	34 stand	advmod
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 feet	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 feet	nmod:poss
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stand	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gain	gerund · perfect	the father and mother badger	badgers's feet			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	pick up	participle	the father and mother badger not said here				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	kick	gerund	badgers = badger	little babes			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent babe=Patient
4	wail	gerund				aloud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	draw	past		the air	badgers's flattened lungs		tree rules
6	flatten	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	stand	could	badgers = badger		badgers's feet	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon foot=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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