Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 32
The second and the third arrows flew upward but missed by a wide space the red eagle soaring with lazy indifference over the little man with the long bow.
Who acts: second, red eagle · What happens: fly, miss, soar
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 (second, 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 | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flew | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arrows | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 arrows | amod |
| 6 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 missed | cc |
| 10 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flew | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 space | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 space | det |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 space | amod |
| 14 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 missed | obl |
| 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 | 14 space | appos |
| 18 | soaring | soar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 eagle | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 indifference | case |
| 20 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 indifference | amod |
| 21 | indifference | indifference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soaring | obl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soaring | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 bow | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bow | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bow | amod |
| 29 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the second | upward property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | miss | participle | the second not said here | by a wide space | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | soar | gerund | the red eagle not said here | with lazy indifference; over the little man with the long bow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over man=Trajectory |
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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