Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 76
All along the slippery bank he vainly tried to climb, till at last he chanced upon the old stake and the deeply worn footpath.
Who acts: water · What happens: try, climb, chance · To what, where: last
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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 8 tried | advmod |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 bank | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bank | det |
| 4 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bank | amod |
| 5 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 8 tried | advmod |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 climb | mark |
| 10 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 last | punct |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climb | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 chanced | nsubj |
| 16 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 last | acl:relcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 stake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stake | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stake | amod |
| 20 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chanced | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 footpath | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 footpath | det |
| 23 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 24 worn | advmod |
| 24 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 footpath | amod |
| 25 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stake | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | water | along the slippery bank; all, vainly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | climb not said to happen | to-infinitive | water not said here | last | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location last=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chance | past | water | last not said here | upon the old stake and the worn footpath | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Pivot |
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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