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title: The light streamed out of the buffalo skull through all the curious… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The light streamed out of the buffalo skull through all the curious sockets and holes. Who acts: light. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 21

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The light streamed out of the buffalo skull through all the curious sockets and holes.

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**Who acts:** light · **What happens:** stream · **To what, where:** buffalo skull

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Dance in a Buffalo Skull. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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:pg338:11:21
# text = The light streamed out of the buffalo skull through all the curious sockets and holes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	streamed	stream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sockets	socket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stream** | past | the light |  |  | the buffalo skull |  | through all curious sockets and holes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out skull=Location |

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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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