Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 73

Thus he skipped confidently along jerking the old weather-eaten rawhide spasmodically till all of a sudden it gave way and Manstin fell headlong into the water.

Who acts: water, rawhide, Manstin · What happens: skip, jerk, eat, give, fall · To what, where: old eaten rawhide, way, water

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, rawhide, Manstin), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 skipped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skipped	nsubj
3	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	confidently	confidently	ADV	_	3 skipped	advmod
5	along	along	ADP	_	6 jerking	mark
6	jerking	jerk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 skipped	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rawhide	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rawhide	amod
9	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eaten	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 weather	punct
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rawhide	amod
12	rawhide	rawhide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jerking	obj
13	spasmodically	spasmodically	ADV	_	15 all	advmod
14	till	till	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 jerking	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sudden	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sudden	det
18	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 all	nmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 all	acl:relcl
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
23	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gave	conj
25	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fell	xcomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 skipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	water			confidently, thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	jerk	gerund	water not said here	the old eaten rawhide	till all		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rawhide=Theme
3	eat	participle					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	rawhide	way			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5	fall	past	Manstin			into the water result; headlong property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result

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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