Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 98

“Wa-ough!” growled the angry bear, and pounced upon the badger.

Who acts: Wa ough · What happens: growl, pounce · To what, where: angry bear

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 (Wa ough), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 ough	punct
2	Wa	Wa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ough	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Wa	punct
4	ough	ough	NOUN	_	7 growled	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ough	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 ough	punct
7	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
9	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bear	amod
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growled	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pounced	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pounced	cc
13	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 growled	conj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 badger	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 badger	det
16	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pounced	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 growled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	past	Wa ough	the angry bear					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Topic
2	pounce	past	Wa ough not said here					upon the badger	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon badger=Trajectory

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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