Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 44

“Clothe him in these my best buckskins,” said he, pointing to a bundle within the wigwam.

Who acts: chieftain · What happens: clothe, say, point · To what, where: chieftain, best buckskins, bundle · 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), 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	_	2 Clothe	punct
2	Clothe	clothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Clothe	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 buckskins	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 buckskins	det
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 buckskins	nmod:poss
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 buckskins	amod
8	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Clothe	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Clothe	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Clothe	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pointing	punct
14	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 bundle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bundle	det
17	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pointing	obl
18	within	within	ADP	_	20 wigwam	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wigwam	det
20	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pointing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	clothe in a quote	infinitive		chieftain		my best buckskins		vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	chieftain					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	point	gerund	chieftain not said here		a bundle		within the wigwam	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bundle=Recipient

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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