Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 60
“My grandchild, your eyes are your luxury! you would be unhappy without them!” the old man replied.
Who acts: eyes, grandchild · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: luxury, old man · 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 (eyes, grandchild), 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 | _ | 14 unhappy | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unhappy | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 luxury | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 luxury | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 luxury | cop |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 luxury | nmod:poss |
| 9 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grandchild | appos |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 luxury | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 unhappy | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 unhappy | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unhappy | cop |
| 14 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 unhappy | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 unhappy | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 unhappy | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unhappy | conj |
| 22 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 man | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your eyes | your luxury | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | My grandchild | without poles = pole; unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: express | participle | the old man not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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