Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 56
Then the old, bent man pulled at a rope which lay by his right hand.
Who acts: rope · What happens: pull, lie · To what, where: old bent man
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 (rope), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 man | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
| 5 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 rope | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rope | det |
| 10 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rope | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | the old bent man not said here | at a rope | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at rope=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | a rope | by man's right hand | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hand=Location |
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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