Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 70
Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst.
Who acts: water · What happens: take, start, quench, thirst · To what, where: one, thirst
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 (water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:1212): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 started | advcl |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ropes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ropes | det |
| 5 | rawhide | rawhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ropes | compound |
| 6 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 brook | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brook | det |
| 11 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 quench | mark |
| 13 | quench | quench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 started | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 15 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quench | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | water not said here | one of the rawhide ropes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | water | toward the brook | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | quench | to-infinitive | water not said here | water's thirst | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | thirst | water | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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