Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 72
He was full of glee, for it had been many long moons since he had tasted such good food.
Who acts: water, glee · What happens: be, taste · To what, where: such good food
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, glee), 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 full | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 glee | case |
| 5 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moons | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 moons | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 moons | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 moons | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 moons | cop |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moons | amod |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moons | amod |
| 13 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | conj |
| 14 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 17 tasted | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tasted | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tasted | aux |
| 17 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 moons | acl:relcl |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 food | amod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 food | amod |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tasted | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | water | of glee; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | glee | for many long moons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | taste | past · perfect | water | such good food | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute |
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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