Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 78
Dripping with his recent plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam.
Who acts: water · What happens: drip, sit, chatter, plunge · To what, where: recent plunge
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 | Dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 plunge | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 plunge | nmod:poss |
| 4 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plunge | amod |
| 5 | plunge | plunge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dripping | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plunge | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 teeth | case |
| 9 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 teeth | amod |
| 10 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sat | obl |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 wigwam | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 13 | unfired | unfired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wigwam | amod |
| 14 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dripping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drip | gerund | with water's recent plunge | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with plunge=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | water | water's recent plunge not said here | with chattering teeth; within water's unfired wigwam | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plunge=Theme | |||
| 3 | chatter | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | plunge | water | nom plunge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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