Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 12

There over the Indian village hovered a large red eagle threatening the safety of the people.

Who acts: large red eagle · What happens: hover, threaten · To what, where: large red eagle, Indian village, safety

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large red eagle), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 hovered	expl
2	over	over	ADP	_	5 village	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 village	amod
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hovered	obl
6	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eagle	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eagle	amod
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eagle	amod
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hovered	obj
11	threatening	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 eagle	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 safety	det
13	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threatening	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 safety	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hover	past		a large red eagle		the Indian village; there			tree rules
2	threaten	gerund	a large red eagle not said here	the safety of the people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus safety=Experiencer

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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