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title: “He is the avenger come to shoot the red eagle,” cried the runners t… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “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. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 7

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

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**Who acts:** MAN, avenger, runners · **What happens:** be, come, shoot, cry, bent, swing · **To what, where:** avenger, red eagle, elbows · **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, avenger, runners), 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:pg338:9:7
# text = “He is the avenger come to shoot the red eagle,” cried the runners to each other as they bent forward swinging their elbows together.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bent	bent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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