Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 14
“How, great chieftain!” replied the man, holding long the chieftain's hand.
Who acts: great chieftain · What happens: reply, hold · To what, where: man, hand
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 (great chieftain), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chieftain | punct |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chieftain | amod |
| 5 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 chieftain | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chieftain | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 holding | punct |
| 12 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chieftain | det |
| 15 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 chieftain | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | great chieftain | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | great chieftain not said here | the chieftain's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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