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title: In answer to the badger's prayer, the avenger had sprung from out th… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In answer to the badger's prayer, the avenger had sprung from out the red globules. Who acts: badger. 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 144

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In answer to the badger's prayer, the avenger had sprung from out the red globules.

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**Who acts:** badger · **What happens:** spring out, pray · **To what, where:** avenger, answer

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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 (badger), 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:pg338:7:144
# text = In answer to the badger's prayer, the avenger had sprung from out the red globules.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	globules	globule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the avenger |  | answer to the badger's prayer |  | the red globules *obl:unmarked* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pray** |  | the badger |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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