Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 22

“Ah, but after he has killed the red eagle he will seem handsome enough!” answered the chieftain.

Who acts: MAN, chieftain · What happens: kill, seem, answer · To what, where: MAN · 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 (MAN, 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	_	14 seem	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	14 seem	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seem	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 seem	cc
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 killed	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 killed	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 killed	aux
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 seem	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eagle	det
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eagle	amod
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killed	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seem	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 seem	aux
14	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 answered	ccomp
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seem	xcomp
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 handsome	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 seem	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 seem	punct
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chieftain	det
21	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answered	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	present · perfect · passive		MAN		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer eagle=Result
2	seem in a quote	future	MAN		handsome property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: express	past	the chieftain			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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