Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 55
Hence a kind Maker has given me these magic bags of choicest foods.”
Who acts: kind Maker · What happens: give · To what, where: magic bags, me
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 (kind Maker), 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 | Hence | hence | ADV | _ | 6 given | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Maker | det |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Maker | amod |
| 4 | Maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 given | iobj |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 bags | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bags | amod |
| 10 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 foods | case |
| 12 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 foods | amod |
| 13 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bags | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | a kind Maker | this magic bags of choicest foods | me | hence property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bag=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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