Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 16

Wordless, like a bashful Indian maid, the avenger ate in silence the food set before him on the ground in front of his crossed shins.

Who acts: avenger · What happens: eat, cross · To what, where: food set, silence

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 (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	Wordless	wordless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 maid	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 maid	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maid	det
5	bashful	bashful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maid	amod
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maid	amod
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wordless	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 avenger	det
10	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	nsubj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maid	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 silence	case
13	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 set	det
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	compound
16	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ate	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 front	case
23	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 shins	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shins	nmod:poss
26	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 shins	amod
27	shins	shin	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 front	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Wordless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the avenger	the food set		silence	before chieftain	on the ground; in front of chieftain's crossed shins	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Patient
2	cross	participle							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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