Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 13
Aboo!” and at the same time he switched the naked baby with a thorny wild-rose bush.
Who acts: giant · What happens: switch · To what, where: naked baby
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 | Aboo | Aboo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aboo | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aboo | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 time | cc |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Aboo | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 switched | nsubj |
| 10 | switched | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 12 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 baby | amod |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 switched | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 bush | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bush | det |
| 16 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bush | amod |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rose | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wild | punct |
| 19 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bush | compound |
| 20 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 switched | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aboo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch in a quote | past | giant | the naked baby | with a thorny rose bush | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme baby=Location with bush=Co-Theme |
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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