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title: Manstin let go his bundle and began to lament having given away his… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Manstin let go his bundle and began to lament having given away his two eyes. Who acts: Manstin. 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 92

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Manstin let go his bundle and began to lament having given away his two eyes.

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**Who acts:** Manstin · **What happens:** let, go, begin, lament, have, give away · **To what, where:** bundle, two eyes

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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), 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:pg338:14:92
# text = Manstin let go his bundle and began to lament having given away his two eyes.
1	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	lament	lament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Manstin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Manstin *not said here* | MANSTIN's bundle |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bundle=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Manstin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **lament** | to-infinitive | Manstin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | Manstin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give away** | participle | Manstin *not said here* | MANSTIN's two eyes |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |

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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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