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title: Kind ghosts pitied the unhappy hunter and led him to the newly slain… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Kind ghosts pitied the unhappy hunter and led him to the newly slain deer, that his children should not cry for food. Who acts: Kind ghosts, children. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 6

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Kind ghosts pitied the unhappy hunter and led him to the newly slain deer, that his children should not cry for food.

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**Who acts:** Kind ghosts, children · **What happens:** pity, lead, not cry · **To what, where:** unhappy hunter, Patkasa, slain deer

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kind ghosts, children), 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:pg338:10:6
# text = Kind ghosts pitied the unhappy hunter and led him to the newly slain deer, that his children should not cry for food.
1	Kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pitied	pity	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pity** | past | Kind ghosts | the unhappy hunter |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lead** | past | Kind ghosts *not said here* | Patkasa |  | the slain deer |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to deer=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | should | Patkasa's children |  |  |  |  | for food | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for food=Recipient |

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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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