Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 19

Of the chieftain's two beautiful daughters he would have his choice who brought the dreaded red eagle with an arrow in its breast.

Who acts: crier, choice · What happens: have, bring, dread · To what, where: choice, dreaded red eagle, breast

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 (crier, choice), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	7 daughters	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chieftain	det
3	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughters	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 chieftain	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 daughters	nummod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughters	amod
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 choice	nmod:poss
12	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 brought	nsubj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 choice	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eagle	det
16	dreaded	dread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 eagle	amod
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eagle	amod
18	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 arrow	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 arrow	det
21	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 breast	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 breast	nmod:poss
24	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	would	crier	crier's choice			of the chieftain's two beautiful daughters	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient
2	bring	past	crier's choice		the dreaded red eagle	arrow's breast	with a arrow	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument eagle=Destination
3	dread	participle						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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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