Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 19

With the magic arrow in his quiver the stranger felt not in the least too presuming in addressing the woman as his mother-in-law.

Who acts: stranger, chieftain · What happens: not feel, presume, address, quiver · To what, where: least, woman

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 (stranger, 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 arrow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 arrow	det
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 arrow	amod
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 quiver	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 quiver	nmod:poss
7	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrow	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stranger	det
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 felt	advmod
12	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 presuming	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 least	det
14	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 presuming	obl
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 presuming	advmod
16	presuming	presume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 felt	advcl
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 addressing	mark
18	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 presuming	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 addressing	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 mother	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 addressing	obl
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 law	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 law	case
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 in	punct
27	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mother	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not feel	past	the stranger			with the magic arrow in chieftain's quiver	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	presume	gerund	the stranger not said here	the least			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	address	gerund	the stranger not said here		the woman	as chieftain's mother in law	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Destination
4	quiver		chieftain				nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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