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title: From the farther end of the room mother badger muttered over her bea… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: From the farther end of the room mother badger muttered over her bead work: “Yes, you grew strong from our well-filled bowls.” Who acts: you, guest. 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 58

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From the farther end of the room mother badger muttered over her bead work: “Yes, you grew strong from our well-filled bowls.”

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**Who acts:** you, guest · **What happens:** mutter, grow, fill, work · **To what, where:** farther end · **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 (you, 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:pg338:7:58
# text = From the farther end of the room mother badger muttered over her bead work: “Yes, you grew strong from our well-filled bowls.”
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bead	bead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  | from the farther end of the mother badger | over guest's bead work | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **work** |  | guest |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «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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