Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 37

The women talked excitedly about the invulnerable red of the eagle's feathers, while the would-be heroes sulked within their wigwams.

Who acts: women, heroes · What happens: talk, be, sulk · To what, where: heroes

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 (women, heroes), 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	2 women	det
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	excitedly	excitedly	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 red	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 red	det
7	invulnerable	invulnerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	amod
8	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 feathers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eagle	det
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feathers	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 eagle	case
13	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 red	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sulked	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 sulked	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heroes	det
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 heroes	aux
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 would	punct
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 heroes	cop
20	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sulked	nsubj
21	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	conj
22	within	within	ADP	_	24 wigwams	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wigwams	nmod:poss
24	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sulked	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the women		about the invulnerable red of the eagle's feathers; excitedly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about red=Topic
2	is a	would		the heroes		tree rules
3	sulk	past	the heroes		within heroes's wigwams	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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