Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 7

“Wan!” he ejaculated, pointing his long ears toward the direction of the sound; “Wan! that is the work of cruel Double-Face.

Who acts: MANSTIN, that · What happens: ejaculate, point, be · To what, where: long ears, work

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, that), 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	_	2 Wan	punct
2	Wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ejaculated	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Wan	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wan	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ejaculated	nsubj
6	ejaculated	ejaculate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pointing	punct
8	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ejaculated	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ears	nmod:poss
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ears	amod
11	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pointing	obj
12	toward	toward	ADP	_	14 direction	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 direction	det
14	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointing	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sound	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sound	det
17	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 direction	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 Wan	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Wan	punct
20	Wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ejaculated	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 work	punct
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 work	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 work	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 work	det
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Wan	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 Face	case
27	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Face	amod
28	Double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Face	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Double	punct
30	Face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 work	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ejaculated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ejaculate	past	MANSTIN			tree rules
2	point	gerund	MANSTIN not said here	MANSTIN's long ears	toward the direction of the sound	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	that	the work	of cruel Double Face	tree rules

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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