Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 17
It was a poisoned arrow, and the giant fell dead.
Who acts: arrow, giant · What happens: poison, be, fall · To what, where: poisoned arrow
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 (arrow, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrow | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 arrow | det |
| 4 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arrow | amod |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrow | conj |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | arrow | a poisoned arrow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the giant | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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