Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 101

The old grandfather crept into his wigwam, which is often mistaken for a mere oak tree by little Indian girls and boys.

Who acts: old grandfather, little Indian girls · What happens: creep, mistake · To what, where: wigwam

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 (old grandfather, little Indian girls), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grandfather	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandfather	amod
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 wigwam	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wigwam	nmod:poss
7	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mistaken	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mistaken	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mistaken	aux:pass
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 mistaken	advmod
12	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wigwam	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	17 tree	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
15	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 oak	compound
16	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tree	compound
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mistaken	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 girls	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girls	amod
20	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girls	amod
21	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mistaken	obl:agent
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 boys	cc
23	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 girls	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	the old grandfather			grandfather's wigwam			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wigwam=Destination
2	mistake	present · passive	little Indian girls and boys	grandfather's wigwam				for a oak tree; often 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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