Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 42
At once his eyes became fixed upon the solitary dwelling and hither he followed his curiosity,--a real blind man's rope.
Who acts: eyes, solitary, man · What happens: become, fix, dwell, follow · To what, where: curiosity
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 (eyes, solitary, man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 became | obl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 solitary | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 solitary | det |
| 9 | solitary | solitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fixed | obl |
| 10 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 solitary | acl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 followed | cc |
| 12 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 14 followed | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 16 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rope | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 rope | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 21 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rope | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 man | case |
| 24 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 curiosity | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | man's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fix | participle | man's eyes not said here | upon the solitary | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | the solitary not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | past | man | man's curiosity and a real blind man's rope | hither property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Theme |
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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