Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 17

When he had finished his meal he handed the empty bowl to the chieftain's wife, saying, “Mother-in-law, here is your dish!”

Who acts: chieftain, dish · What happens: finish, hand, say, be · To what, where: meal, empty bowl, wife, Mother, law · 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 (chieftain, dish), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 handed	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 meal	nmod:poss
6	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 handed	nsubj
8	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bowl	det
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bowl	amod
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handed	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 wife	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chieftain	det
14	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 chieftain	case
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 handed	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Mother	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Mother	punct
21	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saying	obj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 law	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 law	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 in	punct
25	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Mother	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 here	punct
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 saying	ccomp
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 here	cop
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 dish	nmod:poss
30	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 here	nsubj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 handed	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	chieftain	chieftain's meal				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector meal=Eventuality
2	hand	past	chieftain	the empty bowl	the chieftain's wife			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme to wife=Destination
3	say speech: express	gerund	chieftain not said here	Mother		law		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent mother=Theme in law=Manner
4	is in a quote	present	your dish				here property	tree rules

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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