Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 77
Exhausted and inwardly disgusted with his mishaps, he crawled more cautiously on all fours to his wigwam door.
Who acts: water · What happens: exhaust, disgust, crawl · To what, where: fours
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 | Exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 disgusted | cc |
| 3 | inwardly | inwardly | ADV | _ | 4 disgusted | advmod |
| 4 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Exhausted | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mishaps | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mishaps | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mishaps | mishap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disgusted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crawled | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 crawled | nsubj |
| 10 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disgusted | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 cautiously | advmod |
| 12 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 10 crawled | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 fours | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 fours | det |
| 15 | fours | four | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crawled | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 door | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | compound |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crawled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Exhausted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | disgust | participle | with water's mishaps; inwardly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | crawl | past | water | all fours | to water's wigwam door; cautiously property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |
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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