Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 65

He is coming now to kill the big red eagle.”

Who acts: bow · What happens: come, kill · To what, where: big 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 (bow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 coming	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 coming	aux
3	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 coming	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 coming	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eagle	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eagle	amod
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eagle	amod
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 coming	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 coming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	bow				now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	to-infinitive	bow not said here	the big red eagle					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=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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