Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 81
“I go for some fire-wood!” he said, following the rawhide rope which led into the forest.
Who acts: wood, rawhide rope · What happens: go, say, follow, lead · To what, where: rawhide rope, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wood, rawhide rope), 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 | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 wood | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wood | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fire | punct |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 following | punct |
| 14 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rope | det |
| 16 | rawhide | rawhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rope | compound |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 following | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rope | acl:relcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | wood | for some fire wood | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wood=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | wood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | wood not said here | the rawhide rope | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | the rawhide rope | the forest | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into forest=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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