Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 53
Again the big red eagle appeared on the edge of the bluff.
Who acts: big red eagle · What happens: appear · To what, where: edge
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 (big red eagle), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eagle | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eagle | amod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eagle | amod |
| 5 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 edge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 edge | det |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bluff | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bluff | det |
| 12 | bluff | bluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edge | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the big red eagle | the edge of the bluff | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on edge=Location |
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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