Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 91
He fell into some tangled wood where he was held fast.
Who acts: bird · What happens: fall, tangle, hold · To what, where: tangled wood, bird
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 wood | det |
| 5 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wood | amod |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 held | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 held | aux:pass |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wood | acl:relcl |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 held | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | bird | into some tangled wood result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into wood=Result | ||||
| 2 | tangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hold | past · passive | bird | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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