Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 98

“Here Manstin, take back your eyes,” said the old man, “I knew you would not be content in my stead, but I wanted you to learn your lesson.

Who acts: Manstin, old man, you · What happens: take back, say, know, not be, want, learn · To what, where: eyes, stead, you, lesson · 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 (Manstin, old man, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 Manstin	advmod
3	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Manstin	punct
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 content	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 content	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 content	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 content	cop
23	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 knew	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 stead	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 stead	nmod:poss
26	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 content	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wanted	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 wanted	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 content	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 learn	mark
33	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wanted	xcomp
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 lesson	nmod:poss
35	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 learn	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take back in a quote	infinitive	Manstin	your eyes			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	past	the old man = man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is in a quote	would	you		my stead	content property	tree rules
5	want in a quote	past	the old man = man	you			tree rules
6	learn not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	your lesson			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic

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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