Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 21

When gallant Manstin returned the child to the eager arms of the mother there came a sudden terror into the eyes of both the Dakotas.

Who acts: gallant Manstin, sudden terror · What happens: return, come · To what, where: child, eager arms, eyes

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 (gallant Manstin, sudden terror), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 returned	advmod
2	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Manstin	amod
3	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 arms	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arms	det
9	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arms	amod
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 returned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arms	nmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 mother	advmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 terror	det
17	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 terror	amod
18	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eyes	det
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Dakotas	case
23	both	both	CCONJ	_	25 Dakotas	cc:preconj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Dakotas	det
25	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eyes	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	gallant Manstin	the child		the eager arms of the mother			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to arm=Destination
2	come	past	a sudden terror			the eyes of the Dakotas			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location

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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