Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 97
It was Manstin's friend with the Earth Ear and the old grandfather.
Who acts: Nearer · What happens: be · To what, where: friend
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 (Nearer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 3 | Manstin | Manstin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Manstin | case |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Ear | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ear | det |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ear | compound |
| 9 | Ear | Ear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grandfather | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grandfather | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grandfather | amod |
| 13 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nearer = near | Manstin's friend and the old grandfather | with the Earth Ear | tree rules |
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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