Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 31
“The earth is our common ear, to carry from its uttermost extremes one's slightest wish for the other!”
Who acts: earth, one · What happens: be, carry, wish · To what, where: common ear, uttermost extremes
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 (earth, one), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ear | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 earth | det |
| 3 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ear | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ear | cop |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ear | amod |
| 7 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carry | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ear | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 extremes | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 extremes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | uttermost | uttermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 extremes | amod |
| 14 | extremes | extreme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | obl |
| 15 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 one | case |
| 17 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 wish | amod |
| 18 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 extremes | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 other | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 carry | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 ear | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the earth | our common ear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | the earth not said here | earth's uttermost extremes one's slightest wish | for the other | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from extreme=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | wish in a quote | one | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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