Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 47

“How, grandchild,” he mumbled, for he was old enough to be grandparent to every living thing, “how!

Who acts: grandfather · What happens: mumble, be · To what, where: grandchild, grandparent

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 mumbled	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 grandchild	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grandchild	punct
4	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mumbled	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grandchild	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 grandchild	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mumbled	nsubj
8	mumbled	mumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 old	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 old	case
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 old	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 old	cop
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mumbled	conj
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 old	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	17 grandparent	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 grandparent	cop
17	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 old	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 thing	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 thing	det
20	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thing	compound
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grandparent	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 how	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 how	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 mumbled	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 mumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mumble speech: other	past	grandfather	grandchild		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	grandfather		enough, old property	tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	grandfather not said here	grandparent	to every living thing	tree rules

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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