Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 68

For a short time it was a most pleasant pastime to smoke willow bark and to eat from the magic bags.

Who acts: rabbit · What happens: be, smoke, eat · To what, where: pleasant pastime, willow bark, magic 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 (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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pastime	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pastime	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pastime	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pastime	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 pleasant	advmod
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pastime	amod
10	pastime	pastime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 smoke	mark
12	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pastime	acl
13	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bark	compound
14	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smoke	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 smoke	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 bags	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bags	det
20	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bags	compound
21	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eat	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pastime	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	rabbit	a pleasant pastime		time	tree rules
2	smoke	to-infinitive		willow bark			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bark=Source
3	eat	to-infinitive			the magic bags		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bag=Source

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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