Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 13

“How, you are the avenger with the magic arrow!” said he, extending to him a smooth soft hand.

Who acts: you, avenger · What happens: be, say, extend · To what, where: avenger, smooth soft hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, avenger), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 avenger	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 avenger	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 avenger	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 avenger	det
7	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 arrow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arrow	det
10	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arrow	amod
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 avenger	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 arrow	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 arrow	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 extending	punct
17	extending	extend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 extending	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hand	det
21	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 extending	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you	the avenger		with the magic arrow	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the avenger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	extend	gerund	the avenger not said here	a smooth soft hand	avenger		vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to he=Recipient

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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