Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 28
The red painted avenger stood ready within the camp ground for the flying of the red eagle.
Who acts: red painted avenger, red eagle · What happens: paint, stand, fly
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 (red painted avenger, red eagle), 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 | 4 avenger | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 avenger | amod |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 avenger | amod |
| 4 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 9 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ground | compound |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 flying | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flying | det |
| 13 | flying | flying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 eagle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eagle | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eagle | amod |
| 17 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flying | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | the red painted avenger | within the camp ground; for the flying of the red eagle; ready property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for flying=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fly | the red eagle | nom flying «act intransitive»: of=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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