Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 22

They feared lest it was Double-Face come in a new guise to torture them.

Who acts: mourners, terror · What happens: fear, be, come, torture · To what, where: new guise, mourners

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 (mourners, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	8 Face	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Face	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Face	cop
6	Double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Face	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Double	punct
8	Face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feared	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 guise	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 guise	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 guise	amod
13	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 torture	mark
15	torture	torture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 torture	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fear	past	mourners = mourner				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	terror			lest Double Face	tree rules
3	come	present			a new guise		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Location
4	torture	to-infinitive		mourners = mourner			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=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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