Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 7

“He is the avenger come to shoot the red eagle,” cried the runners to each other as they bent forward swinging their elbows together.

Who acts: MAN, avenger, runners · What happens: be, come, shoot, cry, bent, swing · To what, where: avenger, red eagle, elbows · 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 (MAN, avenger, runners), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 avenger	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 avenger	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 avenger	det
5	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 shoot	mark
8	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eagle	det
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eagle	amod
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 runners	det
16	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cried	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 each	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 runners	nmod
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 each	fixed
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 bent	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bent	nsubj
22	bent	bent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	advcl
23	forward	forward	ADV	_	22 bent	advmod
24	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 bent	advcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 elbows	nmod:poss
26	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 swinging	obj
27	together	together	ADV	_	24 swinging	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	MAN	the avenger		tree rules
2	come in a quote	infinitive	the avenger			tree rules
3	shoot in a quote	to-infinitive	the avenger not said here	the red eagle		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	the runners			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bent	present	runners = runner		forward property	tree rules
6	swing	gerund	runners = runner not said here	runners's elbows	together property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent elbow=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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