Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 29

With a forefinger he traced a slit in the upper lip; and when on the morrow the man and woman awoke they could not distinguish their own son from Manstin, so much alike were the braves.

Who acts: MANSTIN, man, father · What happens: trace, awake, not distinguish, be · To what, where: slit, upper lip, morrow, own son

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, man, father), 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 forefinger	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 forefinger	det
3	forefinger	forefinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 traced	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 traced	nsubj
5	traced	trace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 slit	det
7	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 traced	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 lip	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lip	det
10	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lip	amod
11	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 traced	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 awoke	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 awoke	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 awoke	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 morrow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morrow	det
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 awoke	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 awoke	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 woman	cc
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	conj
22	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 traced	conj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 distinguish	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 distinguish	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 distinguish	advmod
26	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 awoke	ccomp
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 son	amod
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 distinguish	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 Manstin	case
31	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 distinguish	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 braves	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	38 braves	advmod
35	alike	alike	ADP	_	38 braves	case
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 braves	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 braves	det
38	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 traced	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 traced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trace	past	MANSTIN	a slit	the upper lip	with a forefinger	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slit=Theme in lip=Destination
2	awake	past	the man and woman		the morrow		tree rules
3	not distinguish	could	father	father's own son		from Manstin	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent son=Theme from manstin=Co-Theme
4	is	past				alike the braves	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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