Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 18
Then Manstin took the little brown baby and hurried away from the ravine.
Who acts: Manstin · What happens: take, hurry away · To what, where: little brown baby, ravine
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 baby | amod |
| 6 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 baby | amod |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hurried | cc |
| 9 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 hurried | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 ravine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ravine | det |
| 13 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Manstin | the little brown baby | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||
| 2 | hurry away | past | Manstin not said here | the ravine | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ravine=Trajectory |
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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