Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 10
This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild-cat-skin about his loins.
Who acts: brown giant · 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 (brown giant), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 giant | det |
| 2 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 giant | amod |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 save | cop |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 save | mark |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 save | nsubj |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 skin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 skin | det |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 skin | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wild | punct |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 cat | punct |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | obl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 loins | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 loins | nmod:poss |
| 17 | loins | loin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 skin | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this brown giant | for a wild cat skin about giant's loins; save property | 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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