Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 9

Perchance the birdie meant the avenger with the magic arrow, for there across the plain he strode.

Who acts: Perchance · What happens: mean, stride · To what, where: avenger, plain

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 (Perchance), 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	Perchance	Perchance	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 meant	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birdie	det
3	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Perchance	appos
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 avenger	det
6	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meant	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 arrow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arrow	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arrow	amod
10	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meant	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 there	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 there	case
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 meant	parataxis
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 plain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 plain	det
16	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 there	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 strode	nsubj
18	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 plain	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	Perchance	the avenger				with the magic arrow	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avenger=Topic
2	stride	past	Perchance	the plain not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plain=Trajectory

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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