Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 69

“If only I had the magic arrow, I would kill the red eagle and win the chieftain's daughter for a wife,” said he in his heart.

Who acts: eagle · What happens: have, kill, win, say · To what, where: magic arrow, red eagle, daughter, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 arrow	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arrow	amod
8	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kill	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	aux
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eagle	det
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eagle	amod
15	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 win	cc
17	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chieftain	det
19	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 daughter	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 chieftain	case
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 win	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 wife	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wife	det
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 win	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 heart	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heart	nmod:poss
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	eagle	the magic arrow			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient
2	kill in a quote	would	eagle	the red eagle			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
3	win in a quote	present	eagle not said here	the chieftain's daughter		for a wife	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme for wife=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert	past	eagle		eagle's heart		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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