Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 75
En!” he grunted kicking frantically amid stream.
Who acts: water · What happens: grunt, kick · To what, where: En, amid stream
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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grunted | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 En | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 En | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grunted | nsubj |
| 5 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | kicking | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 grunted | xcomp |
| 7 | frantically | frantically | ADV | _ | 8 amid | advmod |
| 8 | amid | amid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stream | amod |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kicking | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grunt in a quote | past | water | En | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kick in a quote | gerund | water not said here | amid stream | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stream=Patient |
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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