Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 2
Stamping a moccasined foot as he drew on his buckskin leggins, he said: “Grandmother, beware of Iktomi!
Who acts: MANSTIN, Grandmother · What happens: stamp, draw, say, beware · To what, where: moccasined foot, buckskin leggins · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Grandmother), 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 | Stamping | stamp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 foot | det |
| 3 | moccasined | moccasined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 foot | amod |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stamping | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 drew | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stamping | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 leggins | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leggins | nmod:poss |
| 10 | buckskin | buckskin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leggins | amod |
| 11 | leggins | leggin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stamping | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Grandmother | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Grandmother | punct |
| 17 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beware | punct |
| 19 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Grandmother | acl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Iktomi | case |
| 21 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 beware | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | gerund | MANSTIN not said here | a moccasined foot | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | MANSTIN | MANSTIN's buckskin leggins | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on leggin=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | MANSTIN | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | beware in a quote | infinitive | Grandmother not said here | of Iktomi | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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