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title: Hereupon the mother badger took long strides across the room, and as… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hereupon the mother badger took long strides across the room, and as she had to pass in front of the strange visitor, she said: “Ah han! Who acts: Hereupon. 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 36

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Hereupon the mother badger took long strides across the room, and as she had to pass in front of the strange visitor, she said: “Ah han!

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**Who acts:** Hereupon · **What happens:** take, have, pass, say · **To what, where:** long strides, room, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hereupon), 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:pg338:7:36
# text = Hereupon the mother badger took long strides across the room, and as she had to pass in front of the strange visitor, she said: “Ah han!
1	Hereupon	Hereupon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Hereupon | long strides |  | the room |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stride=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Hereupon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Hereupon *not said here* |  |  | front of the strange visitor |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hereupon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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