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title: And when the avenger, plucking a red eagle feather, placed it in his… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the avenger, plucking a red eagle feather, placed it in his black hair, a loud shout of the people went up to the sky. Who acts: avenger, loud shout. 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 63

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And when the avenger, plucking a red eagle feather, placed it in his black hair, a loud shout of the people went up to the sky.

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**Who acts:** avenger, loud shout · **What happens:** pluck, place, go up, shout · **To what, where:** red eagle feather, village, black hair, people

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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 (avenger, loud shout), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg338:849`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:9:63
# text = And when the avenger, plucking a red eagle feather, placed it in his black hair, a loud shout of the people went up to the sky.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	up	up	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | gerund | the avenger *not said here* | a red eagle feather |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 2 | **place** | past | the avenger | village |  | avenger's black hair |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hair=Destination |
| 3 | **go up** | past | a loud shout of the people |  |  |  |  | to the sky | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **shout** |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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