Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 15
He bent his bow and the sinewy string twanged.
Who acts: MANSTIN · What happens: bend, twang · To what, where: bow, sinewy string
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 (MANSTIN), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bent | nsubj |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bent | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 string | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 string | det |
| 7 | sinewy | sinewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 string | amod |
| 8 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bow | conj |
| 9 | twanged | twang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 string | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | MANSTIN | MANSTIN's bow and the sinewy string | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material | ||||
| 2 | twang | participle | the sinewy string not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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