Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 71
He was young and unwilling to trudge slowly in the old man's footpath.
Who acts: water · What happens: be, trudge · To what, where: footpath
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.
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 young | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | cop |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 unwilling | cc |
| 5 | unwilling | unwilling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trudge | mark |
| 7 | trudge | trudge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unwilling | xcomp |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 trudge | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 footpath | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 footpath | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trudge | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | water | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | water not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | trudge | to-infinitive | water not said here | the old man's footpath | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in footpath=Trajectory |
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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