Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 31

When the first arrow shot up into the sky the anxious watchers thrust a hand quickly over their half-uttered “hinnu!”

Who acts: first arrow, anxious watchers · What happens: shoot up, thrust, utter · To what, where: sky, hand, watchers

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 (first arrow, anxious watchers), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 shot	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 arrow	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 arrow	amod
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shot	nsubj
5	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thrust	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 shot	compound:prt
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shot	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 watchers	det
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 watchers	amod
12	watchers	watcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thrust	nsubj
13	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hand	det
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrust	obj
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 thrust	advmod
17	over	over	SCONJ	_	21 uttered	mark
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 uttered	nsubj:pass
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 uttered	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 half	punct
21	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thrust	advcl
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 hinnu	punct
23	hinnu	hinnu	X	Foreign=Yes	21 uttered	dep
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 thrust	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shoot up	past	the first arrow		the sky		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	thrust	infinitive	the anxious watchers	a hand		quickly property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	utter speech: other	participle · passive		watchers = watcher			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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