Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 67
Rejoicing, the old grandfather started away with his young eyes while the blind rabbit filled his dream pipe, leaning lazily against the tent pole.
Who acts: old grandfather, blind rabbit · What happens: rejoice, start away, fill, lean · To what, where: dream pipe, tent pole
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 (old grandfather, blind rabbit), 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 | Rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 started | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rejoicing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grandfather | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grandfather | amod |
| 5 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 started | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 started | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 filled | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rabbit | det |
| 14 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rabbit | amod |
| 15 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | nsubj |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pipe | compound |
| 19 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaning | punct |
| 21 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 filled | advcl |
| 22 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 21 leaning | advmod |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 pole | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pole | det |
| 25 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pole | compound |
| 26 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaning | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | gerund | the old grandfather not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | start away | past | the old grandfather | with grandfather's young eyes; away property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with eye=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | the blind rabbit | grandfather's dream pipe | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lean | gerund | the blind rabbit not said here | the tent pole | lazily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pole=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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