Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 8
Shameless coward! he delights in torturing helpless creatures!”
Who acts: Shameless coward · What happens: delight, torture · To what, where: helpless creatures
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 (Shameless coward), 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 | Shameless | shameless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 coward | amod |
| 2 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delights | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 coward | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 delights | nsubj |
| 5 | delights | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 torturing | mark |
| 7 | torturing | torture | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 delights | advcl |
| 8 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creatures | amod |
| 9 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 torturing | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 delights | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 delights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delight | present | Shameless coward | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | torture | gerund | Shameless coward not said here | helpless creatures | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creature=Experiencer |
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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