Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 46
He heard the entrance and felt the presence of some stranger.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: hear, feel · To what, where: entrance, presence
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 entrance | det |
| 4 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 felt | cc |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presence | det |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stranger | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | grandfather | the entrance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer entrance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | grandfather not said here | the presence of some stranger | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=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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