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title: Ah! what a dismal cry was theirs as the whole badger family went for… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! what a dismal cry was theirs as the whole badger family went forth wailing from out their own dwelling! Who acts: dismal cry, whole badger family. 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 82

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Ah! what a dismal cry was theirs as the whole badger family went forth wailing from out their own dwelling!

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**Who acts:** dismal cry, whole badger family · **What happens:** be, go, wail · **To what, where:** badgers, own dwelling

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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 (dismal cry, whole badger family), 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:pg338:7:82
# text = Ah! what a dismal cry was theirs as the whole badger family went forth wailing from out their own dwelling!
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a dismal cry | badgers *= badger* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the whole badger family |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wail** | gerund | the whole badger family *not said here* |  |  | badgers's own dwelling |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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