Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 36

It was no other than the young woman who cut loose the tree-bound captive!

Who acts: pony, young woman · What happens: be, cut, loose, bind · To what, where: bound captive

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 (pony, young woman), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 other	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 other	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 other	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 loose	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loose	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cut	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	loose	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 other	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 captive	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bound	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 tree	punct
15	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 captive	amod
16	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loose	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 other	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	pony		other property	tree rules
2	cut	past	the young woman			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	loose	past	the young woman	the bound captive		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent captive=Patient
4	bind	participle				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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