Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 50
“Grandfather, I am Manstin,” answered the rabbit, all the while looking with curious eyes about the wigwam.
Who acts: Grandfather · What happens: be, answer, look · To what, where: Manstin, rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 2 Grandfather | punct |
| 2 | Grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Manstin | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Manstin | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Manstin | cop |
| 6 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Grandfather | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Manstin | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Manstin | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rabbit | det |
| 11 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 looking | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 looking | det |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 looking | mark |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eyes | amod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 wigwam | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wigwam | det |
| 22 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Grandfather | Manstin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Grandfather | the rabbit | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Grandfather not said here | with curious eyes about the wigwam | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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