Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 99

“Be gone!” said he, and with his big hind foot he sent father badger sprawling on the ground.

Who acts: ough, father badger · What happens: go, say, send, sprawl · To what, where: father badger, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ough, father badger), 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	_	3 gone	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 gone	aux:pass
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sent	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 foot	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foot	nmod:poss
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 foot	amod
13	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 foot	amod
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sent	nsubj
16	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 badger	compound
18	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obj
19	sprawling	sprawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 badger	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprawling	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive · passive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»
2	say speech: express	past	ough				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	send	past	ough	father badger		with ough's big hind foot	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Theme
4	sprawl	gerund	father badger not said here		the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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