Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 34
Upon leaving his friend, Manstin hurried away toward the North country whither he was bound for a long hunt.
Who acts: Manstin · What happens: leave, hurry away, bind · To what, where: friend, North country, MANSTIN
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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | mark |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hurried | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaving | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaving | punct |
| 6 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hurried | nsubj |
| 7 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 hurried | advmod |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 country | compound |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurried | obl |
| 13 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 bound | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bound | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bound | aux:pass |
| 16 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 country | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 hunt | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hunt | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hunt | amod |
| 20 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bound | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | Manstin not said here | man's friend | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurry away | past | Manstin | the North country | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward country=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | bind | past · passive | MANSTIN | for a long hunt; whither property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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