Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 69
Manstin grew thirsty, but there was no water in the small dwelling.
Who acts: Manstin, water · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: small dwelling
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 (Manstin, water), 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 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dwelling | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dwelling | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dwelling | amod |
| 13 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Manstin | thirsty property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no water | the small dwelling; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dwelling=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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