Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 82

Ah! what a dismal cry was theirs as the whole badger family went forth wailing from out their own dwelling!

Who acts: dismal cry, whole badger family · What happens: be, go, wail · To what, where: badgers, own dwelling

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 (dismal cry, whole badger family), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cry	det
5	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cry	amod
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 theirs	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 theirs	cop
8	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 what	acl:relcl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 family	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 family	amod
12	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 family	compound
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
15	forth	forth	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	21 dwelling	case
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 dwelling	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dwelling	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dwelling	amod
21	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wailing	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a dismal cry	badgers = badger			tree rules
2	go	past	the whole badger family			forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wail	gerund	the whole badger family not said here		badgers's own dwelling		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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