Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 38

“Hun-he!” exclaimed Manstin, bending over the freshly made footprints in the moist bank of the brook.

Who acts: Hun · What happens: exclaim, bend, make · To what, where: Manstin, made footprints

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 (Hun), 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	_	2 Hun	punct
2	Hun	hun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 he	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Hun	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 he	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hun	punct
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bending	punct
10	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 exclaimed	advcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	15 footprints	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 footprints	det
13	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	14 made	advmod
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 footprints	amod
15	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bending	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 bank	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bank	det
18	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bank	amod
19	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 footprints	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 brook	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 brook	det
22	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bank	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Hun	Manstin			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent manstin=Topic
2	bend	gerund	Hun not said here		the made footprints in the moist bank of the brook		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over footprint=Location
3	make	participle				freshly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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