Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 100

Thus talking the three returned to the hut.

Who acts: talking · What happens: talk, return · To what, where: three

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 (talking), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 talking	advmod
2	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 returned	csubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 three	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 talking	obj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 hut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund		the three				thus property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent three=Patient
2	return	past	talking					to the hut result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result

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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