Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 58
“Grandfather, I wish I lived in such sure luxury!
Who acts: Grandfather · What happens: wish, live · To what, where: Grandfather, such sure luxury · 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 | 5 wish | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grandfather | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 luxury | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luxury | amod |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luxury | amod |
| 11 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Grandfather | Grandfather | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | past | Grandfather | such sure luxury | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxury=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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