Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 56

Let him kill the red eagle with his magic arrow.

Who acts: you, tale · What happens: let, kill · To what, where: tale, red eagle

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 (you, tale), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eagle	amod
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kill	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 arrow	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arrow	nmod:poss
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arrow	amod
10	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kill	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	tale					tree rules
2	kill	infinitive	tale not said here	the red eagle				with tale's magic arrow	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient with arrow=Instrument

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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