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title: “Grandfather, I am Manstin,” answered the rabbit, all the while look… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Grandfather, I am Manstin,” answered the rabbit, all the while looking with curious eyes about the wigwam. Who acts: Grandfather. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 50

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“Grandfather, I am Manstin,” answered the rabbit, all the while looking with curious eyes about the wigwam.

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**Who acts:** Grandfather · **What happens:** be, answer, look · **To what, where:** Manstin, rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Grandfather), 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:pg338:14:50
# text = “Grandfather, I am Manstin,” answered the rabbit, all the while looking with curious eyes about the wigwam.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Grandfather | Manstin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Grandfather |  | the rabbit |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Grandfather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with curious eyes about the wigwam | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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