Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 86

All day father badger prowled through the forest, but without his arrows he could not get food for his children.

Who acts: father badger, distance · What happens: prowl, not get · To what, where: forest, food

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 badger, distance), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 badger	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 father	compound
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 badger	compound
4	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prowled	nsubj
5	prowled	prowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prowled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 get	cc
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 arrows	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arrows	nmod:poss
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 get	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 prowled	conj
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 children	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 children	nmod:poss
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 get	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prowled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prowl	past	all father badger			the forest			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	not get	could	distance	food				without distance's arrows; for distance's children	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for child=Beneficiary

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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