Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 80
“Hin!” murmured Manstin and bravely tried the other rope.
Who acts: Hin · What happens: murmur, try · To what, where: Manstin, other rope
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 (Hin), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hin | punct |
| 2 | Hin | hin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 murmured | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hin | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hin | punct |
| 5 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 murmured | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 8 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 9 tried | advmod |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 murmured | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rope | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rope | amod |
| 12 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murmur speech: other | past | Hin | Manstin | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manstin=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Hin not said here | the other rope | bravely property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Eventuality |
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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