Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 58
He moved his outspread wings one, two, three times and lo! the eagle tumbled from the great height and fell heavily to the earth.
Who acts: bird · What happens: move, tumble, fall · To what, where: outspread wings, eagle, great height
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 (bird), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | outspread | outspread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wings | amod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 moved | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wings | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 two | punct |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 times | punct |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wings | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 13 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 23 fell | discourse |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 lo | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eagle | det |
| 16 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lo | appos |
| 17 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 eagle | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 height | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 height | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 height | amod |
| 21 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tumbled | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | conj |
| 24 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 23 fell | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 earth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 earth | det |
| 27 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | bird | bird's outspread wings and three times | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tumble | participle | the eagle not said here | the great height | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from height=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | bird not said here | to the earth; heavily property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme |
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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