Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 97
Give me a small piece of meat for them,” begged the badger.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, beg · To what, where: small piece, me, badger
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), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 meat | case |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meat | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 badger | det |
| 14 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a small piece of meat for meats | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | past | you not said here | the badger | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent badger=Recipient |
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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