Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 64
Take out your eyes and give them to me.
Who acts: you · What happens: take out, give · To what, where: eyes, bags
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 (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Take | compound:prt |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | imperative | you not said here | your eyes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | bags = bag | to me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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