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title: A little distance away from their stolen house the father badger bui… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A little distance away from their stolen house the father badger built a small round hut. Who acts: little distance. 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 83

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A little distance away from their stolen house the father badger built a small round hut.

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**Who acts:** little distance · **What happens:** steal, build · **To what, where:** small round hut

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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 (little distance), 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:pg338:7:83
# text = A little distance away from their stolen house the father badger built a small round hut.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | past | a little distance | a small round hut |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product |

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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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