Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 59

I would lean back against a tent pole, and with crossed feet I would smoke sweet willow bark the rest of my days,” sighed Manstin.

Who acts: I, crossed feet, Grandfather · What happens: lean back, cross, smoke, bark, sigh · To what, where: tent pole, sweet willow, rest, Manstin

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 (I, crossed feet, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lean	aux
3	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 lean	advmod
5	against	against	ADP	_	8 pole	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pole	det
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pole	compound
8	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lean	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bark	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bark	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 feet	amod
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bark	nsubj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 smoke	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 smoke	aux
16	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 feet	acl:relcl
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 willow	amod
18	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smoke	obj
19	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lean	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bark	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 days	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 days	nmod:poss
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rest	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bark	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lean	punct
27	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lean	conj
28	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sighed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lean back	would	I		a tent pole	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pole=Location
2	cross	participle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smoke	would	I	sweet willow		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent willow=Source
4	bark	present	crossed feet	the rest of my days		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
5	sigh in a quote	past	Grandfather not said here	Manstin		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manstin=Topic

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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