Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 5

With these words of caution to the bent old rabbit grandmother with whom he had lived since he was a tiny babe, Manstin started off toward the north.

Who acts: MANSTIN · What happens: live, be, start off, word · To what, where: tiny babe, caution

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 (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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 started	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 caution	case
5	caution	caution	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 grandmother	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grandmother	det
8	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grandmother	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grandmother	amod
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grandmother	compound
11	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caution	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 grandmother	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lived	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lived	aux
16	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 whom	acl:relcl
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	22 babe	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 babe	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 babe	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 babe	det
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 babe	amod
22	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 words	punct
24	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 started	nsubj
25	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 started	compound:prt
27	toward	toward	ADP	_	29 north	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 north	det
29	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 started	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect	MANSTIN			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	MANSTIN	a tiny babe		tree rules
3	start off	past	Manstin		with this words of caution to the bent old rabbit grandmother with caution to the bent old rabbit grandmother; toward the north	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with word=Subeventuality
4	word			caution to the bent old rabbit grandmother with caution to the bent old rabbit grandmother with caution		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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