Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 59
An arrow stuck in his breast!
What happens: stick · To what, where: arrow, breast
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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 arrow | det |
| 2 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 arrow | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 breast | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | participle | a arrow not said here | arrow's breast | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in breast=Destination |
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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