Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 92
Manstin let go his bundle and began to lament having given away his two eyes.
Who acts: Manstin · What happens: let, go, begin, lament, have, give away · To what, where: bundle, two eyes
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 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lament | mark |
| 9 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lament | xcomp |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 having | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 given | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 eyes | nummod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 given | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Manstin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Manstin not said here | MANSTIN's bundle | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bundle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Manstin not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lament | to-infinitive | Manstin not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | have | gerund | Manstin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | give away | participle | Manstin not said here | MANSTIN's two eyes | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent eye=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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