Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 56
He placed the arrow on the bow, drawing a poisoned flint for the eagle.
Who acts: MAN · What happens: place, draw, poison · To what, where: arrow, bow, poisoned flint
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 (MAN), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:842): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arrow | det |
| 4 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bow | det |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drawing | punct |
| 9 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 placed | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flint | det |
| 11 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flint | amod |
| 12 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drawing | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 eagle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eagle | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drawing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | MAN | the arrow | the bow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme on bow=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw | gerund | MAN not said here | a poisoned flint | for the eagle | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flint=Result for eagle=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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