Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 4
I am going to the North country on a long hunt.”
Who acts: I · What happens: go · To what, where: long hunt
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 country | compound |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hunt | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hunt | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hunt | amod |
| 11 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | a long hunt | to the North country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location |
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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