Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 43
Then with quick decision he gave command to a fleet horseman to meet the avenger.
Who acts: chieftain · What happens: give, meet · To what, where: command, fleet horseman, avenger
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 gave | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 decision | case |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 decision | amod |
| 4 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 horseman | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 horseman | det |
| 10 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 horseman | amod |
| 11 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 meet | mark |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gave | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 avenger | det |
| 15 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | chieftain | command | a fleet horseman | then | with quick decision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent command=Theme to horseman=Recipient | |
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | chieftain not said here | the avenger | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avenger=Co-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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