Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 79

The sun had set and the night air was chilly, but there was no fire-wood in the dwelling.

Who acts: night air, fire wood · What happens: set, be · To what, where: sun

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 (night air, fire wood), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chilly	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 air	compound
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chilly	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chilly	cop
10	chilly	chilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 wood	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wood	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 fire	punct
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 dwelling	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dwelling	det
21	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wood	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past · perfect · passive		the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is	past	the night air			chilly property	tree rules
3	be	past	no fire wood in the dwelling		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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