Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 85

When he had a large heap, he tied two opposite ends of blanket together and lifted the bundle of wood upon his back, but alas! he had unconsciously dropped the end of the rope and now he was lost in the wood!

Who acts: MANSTIN · What happens: have, tie, lift, drop, lose · To what, where: large heap, two opposite ends, bundle, back, alas, MANSTIN

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 (MANSTIN), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tied	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 heap	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heap	amod
6	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tied	nsubj
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 ends	nummod
11	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ends	amod
12	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tied	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 blanket	case
14	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ends	nmod
15	together	together	ADV	_	9 tied	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lifted	cc
17	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tied	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bundle	det
19	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lifted	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 wood	case
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bundle	nmod
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 back	nmod:poss
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lifted	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dropped	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 dropped	cc
27	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dropped	nsubj:pass
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 alas	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dropped	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dropped	aux
31	unconsciously	unconsciously	ADV	_	32 dropped	advmod
32	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tied	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dropped	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 rope	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rope	det
37	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 end	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lost	cc
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 lost	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 lost	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 lost	aux:pass
42	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 dropped	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 wood	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 wood	det
45	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lost	obl
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	MANSTIN	a large heap				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Patient
2	tie	past	MANSTIN	two opposite ends of blanket			together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
3	lift	past	MANSTIN not said here	the bundle of wood	MANSTIN's back			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme upon back=Destination
4	drop	past · perfect · passive		alas			unconsciously property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme end=Destination
5	lose	past · passive		MANSTIN	the wood	now		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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