Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 9

Muttering indistinct words, Manstin ran up the last hill and lo! in the ravine beyond stood the terrible monster with a face in front and one in the back of his head!

Who acts: Manstin · What happens: mutter, run up, stand · To what, where: indistinct words, last hill, terrible monster, ravine

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	Muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ran	advcl
2	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Muttering	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Muttering	punct
5	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hill	amod
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
12	lo	lo	INTJ	_	18 stood	discourse
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 lo	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 ravine	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ravine	det
16	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
17	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	18 stood	advmod
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 monster	det
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 monster	amod
21	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 face	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 face	det
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 front	case
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 one	cc
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 stood	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 back	det
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 head	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 back	nmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	gerund	Manstin not said here	indistinct words			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	run up	past	Manstin	the last hill			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory
3	stand	past	Manstin not said here	the terrible monster	the ravine	with a face; in front; in the back of MANSTIN's head; beyond property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent monster=Theme in ravine=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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