Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 61

“Grandfather, I would give you my two eyes for your place!” cried Manstin.

Who acts: I · What happens: give, cry · To what, where: Grandfather, you · 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 (I), 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	_	6 give	punct
2	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Grandfather	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	parataxis
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eyes	nummod
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 place	nmod:poss
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cried	flat
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	would	I	Grandfather	you			for your place	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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