Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 94
The old oak tree grandfather has gone off with my eyes and I am lost in the woods!” he cried with his lips close to the earth.
Who acts: old tree grandfather, grandfather · What happens: go off, lose, cry · To what, where: I, woods · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old tree grandfather, grandfather), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grandfather | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grandfather | amod |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grandfather | compound |
| 5 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 gone | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gone | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lost | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lost | aux:pass |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gone | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 woods | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woods | det |
| 18 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lost | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cried | nsubj |
| 22 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 lips | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lips | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cried | obl |
| 26 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lips | amod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 earth | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 earth | det |
| 29 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 close | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | present · perfect | the old tree grandfather | with my eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | present · passive | I | the woods | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | grandfather | with grandfather's lips | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with lip=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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