Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 28

With his feet placed gently yet firmly upon the tiny toes of the little child, he drew upward by each small hand the sleeping child till he was a full-grown man.

Who acts: MANSTIN · What happens: place, draw, grow, be · To what, where: feet, tiny toes, grown man

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 (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	With	with	ADP	_	3 feet	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 feet	nmod:poss
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drew	obl
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feet	acl
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 placed	advmod
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 firmly	advmod
7	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	4 placed	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 toes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 toes	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 toes	amod
11	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 placed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 child	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 toes	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feet	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drew	nsubj
18	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	upward	upward	ADV	_	18 drew	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 hand	case
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 hand	det
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 child	det
25	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 child	amod
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hand	conj
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 man	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 man	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 man	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
31	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 grown	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 full	punct
33	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 child	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	participle		MANSTIN's feet not said here	the tiny toes of the little child	firmly, gently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon toe=Destination
2	draw	past	MANSTIN			with MANSTIN's feet; by each small hand and the sleeping child; upward property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	MANSTIN	a grown man			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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