Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 52

In his hand was a strong bow and red-tipped arrow.

What happens: be, tip · To what, where: strong bow, hand

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: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bow	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bow	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bow	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bow	amod
7	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 arrow	cc
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tipped	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 red	punct
11	tipped	tip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 arrow	amod
12	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bow	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a strong bow and tipped arrow		MAN's hand			tree rules
2	tip	participle							vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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