Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 1

MANSTIN was an adventurous brave, but very kind-hearted.

Who acts: MANSTIN · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MANSTIN), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	MANSTIN	MANSTIN	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brave	det
4	adventurous	adventurous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brave	amod
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hearted	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hearted	cc
8	very	very	ADV	_	11 hearted	advmod
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hearted	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct
11	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brave	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	MANSTIN					brave property	tree rules
2	be		MANSTIN not said here						tree rules

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.

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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