Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 20
It was the teepee of the stolen baby and the mourners were its heart-broken parents.
Who acts: voice, mourners · What happens: be, steal, break · To what, where: teepee, broken parents
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 (voice, mourners), 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 | 4 teepee | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 teepee | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teepee | det |
| 4 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 baby | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baby | det |
| 7 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 baby | amod |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teepee | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mourners | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mourners | det |
| 11 | mourners | mourner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 parents | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 parents | cop |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 parents | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broken | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 heart | punct |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 parents | amod |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 teepee | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teepee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | voice | the teepee | of the stolen baby | tree rules | |||
| 2 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the mourners | voice's broken parents | tree rules |
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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