Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 2

The red-tipped arrow he drew from the wounded deer was unlike the arrows in his own quiver.

Who acts: huntsman, tipped arrow · What happens: tip, draw, be, quiver · To what, where: tipped arrow, wounded deer, own quiver

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, tipped arrow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 arrow	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tipped	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 red	punct
4	tipped	tip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 arrow	amod
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrows	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drew	nsubj
7	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrow	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 deer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 deer	det
10	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deer	amod
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 arrows	cop
13	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	15 arrows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 arrows	det
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 quiver	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 quiver	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 quiver	amod
19	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrows	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 arrows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tip	participle					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	draw	past	huntsman	the tipped arrow not said here	the wounded deer		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme from deer=Initial_Location
3	is	past	the tipped arrow		huntsman's own quiver	unlike the arrows	tree rules
4	quiver		huntsman				nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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