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title: “Ah, but after he has killed the red eagle he will seem handsome eno… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah, but after he has killed the red eagle he will seem handsome enough!” answered the chieftain. Who acts: MAN, chieftain. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 22

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“Ah, but after he has killed the red eagle he will seem handsome enough!” answered the chieftain.

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**Who acts:** MAN, chieftain · **What happens:** kill, seem, answer · **To what, where:** MAN · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, chieftain), 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:pg338:9:22
# text = “Ah, but after he has killed the red eagle he will seem handsome enough!” answered the chieftain.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
19	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | MAN |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer eagle=Result |
| 2 | **seem** *in a quote* | future | MAN |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the chieftain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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