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title: The father and mother badger, having gained their feet, picked up th… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The father and mother badger, having gained their feet, picked up their kicking little babes, and, wailing aloud, drew the air into their flattened lungs till they could stand alone upon their feet. Who acts: father, badgers. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear,
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# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 80

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The father and mother badger, having gained their feet, picked up their kicking little babes, and, wailing aloud, drew the air into their flattened lungs till they could stand alone upon their feet.

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**Who acts:** father, badgers · **What happens:** gain, pick up, kick, wail, draw, flatten · **To what, where:** feet, little babes, air, flattened lungs

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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, 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:pg338:7:80
# text = The father and mother badger, having gained their feet, picked up their kicking little babes, and, wailing aloud, drew the air into their flattened lungs till they could stand alone upon their feet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	ccomp	_	_
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
24	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	flattened	flatten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
35	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | gerund · perfect | the father and mother badger | badgers's feet |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 2 | **pick up** | participle | the father and mother badger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kick** | gerund | badgers *= badger* | little babes |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent babe=Patient |
| 4 | **wail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **draw** | past |  | the air |  | badgers's flattened lungs |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **flatten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **stand** | could | badgers *= badger* |  |  | badgers's feet |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon foot=Location |

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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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