Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 2
The setting sun shone bright upon a strong bow in his hand.
Who acts: setting sun · What happens: shine · To what, where: strong bow
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 (setting sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 2 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | compound |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | nsubj |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shone | xcomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 bow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bow | det |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bow | amod |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bow | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the setting sun | a strong bow in sun's hand | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bow=Location |
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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