Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 18

At last to urge his men to their utmost skill he bade his crier proclaim a new reward.

Who acts: eagle, crier · What happens: urge, bade, proclaim · To what, where: men, last, utmost skill, new reward

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 (eagle, crier), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 urge	obl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 urge	mark
4	urge	urge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 men	nmod:poss
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 urge	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 skill	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 skill	nmod:poss
9	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skill	amod
10	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 urge	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bade	nsubj
12	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 skill	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 crier	nmod:poss
14	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proclaim	nsubj
15	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 bade	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 reward	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 reward	amod
18	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proclaim	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 urge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	urge	to-infinitive			eagle's men	last	to men's utmost skill	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2	bade	past	eagle	men's utmost skill not said here				tree rules
3	proclaim	infinitive	eagle's crier	a new reward				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme

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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