Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 52
“My grandchild, those are dried buffalo meat and venison.
What happens: dry
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: 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 | _ | 3 grandchild | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grandchild | punct |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 meat | det |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dried | aux:pass |
| 7 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 meat | amod |
| 8 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meat | compound |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grandchild | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 venison | cc |
| 11 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meat | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grandchild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry in a quote | present · passive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» |
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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