Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 82
Soon he stumbled upon thickly strewn dry willow sticks.
Who acts: rope · What happens: stumble · To what, where: thickly strewn dry willow sticks
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 (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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stumbled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stumbled | nsubj |
| 3 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 sticks | case |
| 5 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sticks | amod |
| 6 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sticks | amod |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sticks | amod |
| 8 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sticks | compound |
| 9 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stumbled | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble | past | rope | thickly strewn dry willow sticks | soon property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stick=Trajectory |
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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