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title: All day father badger prowled through the forest, but without his ar… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: All day father badger prowled through the forest, but without his arrows he could not get food for his children. Who acts: father badger, 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 86

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All day father badger prowled through the forest, but without his arrows he could not get food for his children.

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**Who acts:** father badger, distance · **What happens:** prowl, not get · **To what, where:** forest, food

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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, 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:pg338:7:86
# text = All day father badger prowled through the forest, but without his arrows he could not get food for his children.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	prowled	prowl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prowl** | past | all father badger |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **get** | could | distance | food |  |  |  | without distance's arrows; for distance's children | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for child=Beneficiary |

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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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