Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 34

“Ah! my blanket brushed my elbow and shifted the course of my arrow!” said the stranger as the people gathered around him.

Who acts: blanket, stranger, people · What happens: brush, shift, say, gather · To what, where: elbow, course · 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 (blanket, stranger, people), 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	_	6 brushed	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 brushed	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 blanket	nmod:poss
5	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brushed	nsubj
6	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 elbow	nmod:poss
8	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brushed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shifted	cc
10	shifted	shift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brushed	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 course	det
12	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shifted	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 arrow	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arrow	nmod:poss
15	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 course	nmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 brushed	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 brushed	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stranger	det
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 gathered	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gathered	nsubj
24	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
25	around	around	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gathered	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	brush in a quote	past	my blanket	my elbow		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme
2	shift in a quote	past	my blanket not said here	the course of my arrow		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer course=Patient
3	say speech: express	past	the stranger			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	gather	past	the people		around arrow	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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