Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 23
The rabbit understood their fear and said: “I am Manstin, the kind-hearted,--Manstin, the noted huntsman.
Who acts: rabbit, mourners · What happens: understand, say, be, note, fear · To what, where: fear, Manstin · 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 (rabbit, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Manstin | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Manstin | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Manstin | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Manstin | cop |
| 12 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hearted | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearted | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hearted | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 kind | punct |
| 17 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Manstin | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Manstin | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Manstin | punct |
| 20 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Manstin | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 huntsman | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 huntsman | det |
| 23 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 huntsman | amod |
| 24 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Manstin | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the rabbit | mourners's fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fear=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the rabbit not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the rabbit = rabbit | Manstin and Manstin and the noted huntsman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | note in a quote | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | fear | mourners = mourner | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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