Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 99

I have had pleasure seeing with your eyes and trying your bow and arrows, but since I am old and feeble I much prefer my own teepee and my magic bags!”

Who acts: I, pleasure · What happens: have, see, try, be, prefer · To what, where: pleasure, bow, own teepee

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 (I, pleasure), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	aux
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pleasure	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seeing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trying	cc
10	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 seeing	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bow	nmod:poss
12	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trying	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 arrows	cc
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bow	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 prefer	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 prefer	cc
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	20 old	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 old	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 old	cop
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 prefer	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 feeble	cc
22	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 old	conj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 prefer	nsubj
24	much	much	ADV	_	25 prefer	advmod
25	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 teepee	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 teepee	amod
28	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prefer	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bags	cc
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bags	nmod:poss
31	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bags	compound
32	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 teepee	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	pleasure		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
2	see	gerund	pleasure not said here		with your eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	try	gerund	pleasure not said here	your bow and arrows		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Eventuality
4	is	present	I		old property	tree rules
5	be		I not said here			tree rules
6	prefer	present	I	my own teepee and my magic bags		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer teepee=Stimulus

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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