Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 27
While the father and mother slept, Manstin took the wee baby.
Who acts: father, Manstin · What happens: sleep, take · To what, where: wee baby
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 (father, Manstin), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 slept | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mother | cc |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | conj |
| 6 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 slept | punct |
| 8 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 baby | det |
| 11 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 baby | amod |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the father and mother | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Manstin | the wee baby | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
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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