Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 37
The ground was trodden into a deep groove beneath the loosely drawn rawhide rope.
What happens: tread, draw · To what, where: ground, deep groove
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ground | det |
| 2 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trodden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trodden | aux:pass |
| 4 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 groove | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 groove | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 groove | amod |
| 8 | groove | groove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trodden | obl |
| 9 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 rope | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rope | det |
| 11 | loosely | loosely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rope | amod |
| 12 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rope | amod |
| 13 | rawhide | rawhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rope | compound |
| 14 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trodden | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trodden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | past · passive | the ground | a deep groove | beneath the loosely drawn rawhide rope | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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