Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 42

At length to the woman he said: “How, you have done me a good deed.”

Who acts: chieftain, you · What happens: say, do · To what, where: length, good deed, chieftain · 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 (chieftain, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 done	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 How	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 done	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deed	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 deed	amod
18	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	chieftain			length to the woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	present · perfect	you	a good deed	chieftain				tree rules

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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