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title: Thus having given meat to the hungry badgers, the ugly baby bear ran… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus having given meat to the hungry badgers, the ugly baby bear ran quickly away to his father again. Who acts: ugly baby bear. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 123

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Thus having given meat to the hungry badgers, the ugly baby bear ran quickly away to his father again.

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**Who acts:** ugly baby bear · **What happens:** have, give, run · **To what, where:** given meat

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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 (ugly baby bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:7:123
# text = Thus having given meat to the hungry badgers, the ugly baby bear ran quickly away to his father again.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the ugly baby bear *not said here* | given meat |  |  |  | to the hungry badgers; thus *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | past | the ugly baby bear |  |  |  | again | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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