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title: Surprised by the strange behavior of the guest who remained standing… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Surprised by the strange behavior of the guest who remained standing upon the rug, leaning his round back against the wall, father badger queried: “How, my friend! Who acts: father badger, guest. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and 
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# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 53

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Surprised by the strange behavior of the guest who remained standing upon the rug, leaning his round back against the wall, father badger queried: “How, my friend!

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**Who acts:** father badger, guest · **What happens:** surprise, remain, stand, lean, query · **To what, where:** rug, round back, wall, friend

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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 (father badger, guest), 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:pg338:7:53
# text = Surprised by the strange behavior of the guest who remained standing upon the rug, leaning his round back against the wall, father badger queried: “How, my friend!
1	Surprised	surprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rug	rug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	queried	query	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surprise** | participle | father badger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the strange behavior of the guest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the guest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | the guest *not said here* |  |  | the rug |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rug=Location |
| 4 | **lean** | gerund | the guest *not said here* | crackling's round back |  | the wall |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme against wall=Destination |
| 5 | **query** | past | father badger | my friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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