Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 30

He hovered over the round village as if he could pounce down upon it and devour the whole tribe.

Who acts: avenger · What happens: hover, pounce down, devour · To what, where: round village, village, whole tribe

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 (avenger), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hovered	nsubj
2	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
5	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 village	amod
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hovered	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 pounce	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 pounce	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pounce	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pounce	aux
11	pounce	pounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hovered	advcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 pounce	compound:prt
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pounce	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 devour	cc
16	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pounce	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tribe	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tribe	amod
19	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 devour	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hover	past	avenger		the round village	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over village=Location
2	pounce down	could	avenger		village	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
3	devour	infinitive	avenger not said here	the whole tribe		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Patient

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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