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title: With a forefinger he traced a slit in the upper lip; and when on the… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With a forefinger he traced a slit in the upper lip; and when on the morrow the man and woman awoke they could not distinguish their own son from Manstin, so much alike were the braves. Who acts: MANSTIN, man, father. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its de
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 29

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With a forefinger he traced a slit in the upper lip; and when on the morrow the man and woman awoke they could not distinguish their own son from Manstin, so much alike were the braves.

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**Who acts:** MANSTIN, man, father · **What happens:** trace, awake, not distinguish, be · **To what, where:** slit, upper lip, morrow, own son

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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, man, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:14:29
# text = With a forefinger he traced a slit in the upper lip; and when on the morrow the man and woman awoke they could not distinguish their own son from Manstin, so much alike were the braves.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forefinger	forefinger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	traced	trace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	slit	slit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	much	much	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	alike	alike	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | past | MANSTIN | a slit |  | the upper lip |  | with a forefinger | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slit=Theme in lip=Destination |
| 2 | **awake** | past | the man and woman |  |  | the morrow |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **distinguish** | could | father | father's own son |  |  |  | from Manstin | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent son=Theme from manstin=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | alike the braves | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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