Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 36
His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance.
Who acts: brink · What happens: catch, stake, lead away, sight · To what, where: rawhide rope, small round hut
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 (brink), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eye | nmod:poss |
| 2 | alert | alert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eye | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rope | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rope | det |
| 8 | rawhide | rawhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rope | compound |
| 9 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 10 | staked | stake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rope | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 brink | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brink | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 water | case |
| 15 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 staked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 led | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 led | nsubj |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brink | acl:relcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 led | advmod |
| 20 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 24 hut | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hut | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hut | amod |
| 23 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hut | amod |
| 24 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 distance | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 distance | det |
| 27 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hut | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stake | participle | a rawhide rope not said here | to the water's brink result | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to brink=Result | ||||
| 3 | lead away | past | the water's brink | a small round hut in the distance | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toward hut=Destination | |||
| 4 | sight | a rawhide rope | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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