Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 44
An old toothless grandfather, blind and shaky with age, sat upon the ground.
Who acts: old toothless grandfather · What happens: sit · To what, where: ground
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 (old toothless grandfather), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 grandfather | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grandfather | amod |
| 3 | toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grandfather | amod |
| 4 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grandfather | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shaky | cc |
| 8 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blind | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 age | case |
| 10 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blind | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandfather | punct |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a old toothless grandfather | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=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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