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title: So quick was the hand of the avenger, so sure his sight, that no one… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: So quick was the hand of the avenger, so sure his sight, that no one had seen the arrow fly from his long bent bow. Who acts: one, hand. 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 61

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So quick was the hand of the avenger, so sure his sight, that no one had seen the arrow fly from his long bent bow.

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**Who acts:** one, hand · **What happens:** be, see, sight · **To what, where:** quick hand, arrow fly, long bent bow

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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 (one, hand), 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:pg338:9:61
# text = So quick was the hand of the avenger, so sure his sight, that no one had seen the arrow fly from his long bent bow.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the quick hand |  |  |  | of the avenger | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | no one | the arrow fly |  | hand's long bent bow |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sight** |  | hand |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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