Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 87

Upon his return, the cry of the little ones for meat, the sad quiet of the mother with bowed head, hurt him like a poisoned arrow wound.

Who acts: you, distance, little ones · What happens: bow, hurt, poison, return, cry · To what, where: distance

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 (you, distance, little ones), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 return	nmod:poss
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hurt	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cry	det
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 return	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 ones	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ones	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cry	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 meat	case
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ones	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 quiet	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 quiet	det
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 quiet	amod
16	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mother	det
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quiet	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 head	amod
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mother	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hurt	obj
26	like	like	ADP	_	30 wound	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wound	det
28	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 wound	amod
29	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wound	compound
30	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hurt	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 hurt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bow	participle				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	imperative	you not said here	distance	upon distance's return and the cry of the little ones for meat and the sad quiet of the mother with bowed head; like a poisoned arrow wound	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
3	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	return		distance			nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	cry		the little ones for meat			nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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