Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 63

And when the avenger, plucking a red eagle feather, placed it in his black hair, a loud shout of the people went up to the sky.

Who acts: avenger, loud shout · What happens: pluck, place, go up, shout · To what, where: red eagle feather, village, black hair, people

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 (avenger, loud shout), 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:pg338:849): 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 placed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 avenger	det
4	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plucking	punct
6	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 placed	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 feather	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feather	amod
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feather	compound
10	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plucking	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plucking	punct
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 went	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 hair	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hair	amod
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 placed	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shout	det
20	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shout	amod
21	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 people	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shout	nmod
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	up	up	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 sky	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sky	det
29	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pluck	gerund	the avenger not said here	a red eagle feather			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	place	past	the avenger	village	avenger's black hair		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hair=Destination
3	go up	past	a loud shout of the people			to the sky	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	shout			the people			nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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