Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 53
These are magic bags which never grow empty.
Who acts: These · What happens: be, not grow · To what, where: magic bags
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 (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 bags | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bags | cop |
| 3 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bags | amod |
| 4 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 grow | obj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 grow | advmod |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bags | acl:relcl |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grow | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bags | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | These | magic bags | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not grow | present | magic bags | empty property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=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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