Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 81
No sooner had the baby badgers caught their breath than they howled and shrieked with pain and fright.
Who acts: baby badgers, badgers · What happens: have, catch, howl, shriek · To what, where: breath
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 (baby badgers, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 badgers | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 badgers | compound |
| 6 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breath | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 howled | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 howled | nsubj |
| 12 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shrieked | cc |
| 14 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 howled | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pain | case |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shrieked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fright | cc |
| 18 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pain | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | the baby badgers | badgers's breath | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | howl | past | badgers = badger | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shriek | past | badgers = badger not said here | with pain and fright | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=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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