Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 11

With a wicked gleaming eye, he watched the little black-haired baby he held in his strong arm.

Who acts: giant · What happens: watch, hold · To what, where: little black haired baby, strong arm

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 (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	With	with	ADP	_	5 eye	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 eye	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
4	gleaming	gleaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eye	compound
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watched	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eye	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 watched	nsubj
8	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 baby	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 baby	amod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 baby	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 black	punct
13	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 baby	amod
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watched	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 held	nsubj
16	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 baby	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 arm	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arm	nmod:poss
19	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 arm	amod
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 held	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	giant	the little black haired baby				with a wicked gleaming eye	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
2	hold	past	giant	the little black haired baby not said here		giant's strong arm			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in arm=Location

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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