Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 61
So quick was the hand of the avenger, so sure his sight, that no one had seen the arrow fly from his long bent bow.
Who acts: one, hand · What happens: be, see, sight · To what, where: quick hand, arrow fly, long bent bow
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 (one, hand), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 quick | advmod |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hand | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hand | det |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 avenger | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 avenger | det |
| 8 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 sure | advmod |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fly | det |
| 21 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | compound |
| 22 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 bow | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bow | nmod:poss |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bow | amod |
| 26 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bow | amod |
| 27 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the quick hand | of the avenger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | no one | the arrow fly | hand's long bent bow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sight | hand | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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