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title: Of the chieftain's two beautiful daughters he would have his choice… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the chieftain's two beautiful daughters he would have his choice who brought the dreaded red eagle with an arrow in its breast. Who acts: crier, choice. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 19

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Of the chieftain's two beautiful daughters he would have his choice who brought the dreaded red eagle with an arrow in its breast.

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**Who acts:** crier, choice · **What happens:** have, bring, dread · **To what, where:** choice, dreaded red eagle, breast

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crier, choice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:8:19
# text = Of the chieftain's two beautiful daughters he would have his choice who brought the dreaded red eagle with an arrow in its breast.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | crier | crier's choice |  |  |  | of the chieftain's two beautiful daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | past | crier's choice |  | the dreaded red eagle | arrow's breast |  | with a arrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument eagle=Destination |
| 3 | **dread** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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