Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 65

Thus he won the beautiful Indian princess who never tired of telling to her children the story of the big red eagle.

Who acts: avenger · What happens: win, tell · To what, where: beautiful Indian princess, story, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 won	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 princess	amod
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 princess	amod
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tired	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 tired	advmod
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 princess	acl:relcl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 telling	mark
12	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tired	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 telling	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 telling	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 eagle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eagle	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eagle	amod
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eagle	amod
22	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 story	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	avenger	the beautiful Indian princess				thus property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	avenger not said here	the story of the big red eagle	princess's children				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to child=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/9/65/