Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 40
Indignant at the bold impostor, the wrathful eyes of the chieftain snapped fire like red cinders in the night time.
Who acts: Indignant · What happens: snap · To what, where: fire
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 (Indignant), 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 | Indignant | Indignant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 snapped | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 impostor | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 impostor | det |
| 4 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 impostor | amod |
| 5 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Indignant | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eyes | det |
| 8 | wrathful | wrathful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Indignant | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chieftain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chieftain | det |
| 12 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod |
| 13 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snapped | obj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 cinders | case |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cinders | amod |
| 17 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 snapped | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | compound |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snapped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | past | Indignant at the bold impostor and the wrathful eyes of the chieftain | fire | time | like red cinders | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Theme |
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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