Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 90
With a bold face, he made a start at random.
Who acts: bird · What happens: make · To what, where: start, random
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 (bird), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 face | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 face | det |
| 3 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 face | amod |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 face | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 start | det |
| 9 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 random | case |
| 11 | random | random | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | bird | a start | random | with a bold face | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Product |
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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