Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 83
Eagerly with both hands he gathered the wood into his outspread blanket.
Who acts: rope · What happens: gather · To what, where: wood, outspread blanket
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 | Eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 6 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 hands | case |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 hands | det |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gathered | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gathered | nsubj |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 blanket | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 11 | outspread | outspread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blanket | amod |
| 12 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | rope | the wood | rope's outspread blanket | with both hands; eagerly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient with hand=Co-Patient |
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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