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title: All the while the baby badgers stared hard at the unexpected comer. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: All the while the baby badgers stared hard at the unexpected comer. Who acts: baby badgers. 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 21

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All the while the baby badgers stared hard at the unexpected comer.

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**Who acts:** baby badgers · **What happens:** stare

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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 (baby badgers), 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:pg338:7:21
# text = All the while the baby badgers stared hard at the unexpected comer.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	comer	comer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | past | the baby badgers |  |  |  |  | at the unexpected comer; hard *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at comer=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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