Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 41

This rope is his guide by which he comes for his daily water!” surmised Manstin, who knew all the peculiar contrivances of the people.

Who acts: rope, man, Manstin · What happens: be, come, surmise, know · To what, where: guide, Manstin, peculiar contrivances · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rope, man, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guide	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guide	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 guide	nmod:poss
5	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 surmised	parataxis
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 comes	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guide	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 water	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 water	nmod:poss
12	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 guide	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 guide	punct
16	surmised	surmise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 surmised	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Manstin	acl:relcl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 contrivances	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 contrivances	det
23	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 contrivances	compound
24	contrivances	contrivance	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 knew	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 people	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 people	det
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 contrivances	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 surmised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this rope	man's guide		tree rules
2	come	present	man		by man's guide; for man's daily water	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location
3	surmise in a quote	past		Manstin		tree rules
4	know in a quote	past	Manstin	all peculiar contrivances of the people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer contrivance=Stimulus

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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