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title: All the while across the dark from out the low river bottom came tha… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: All the while across the dark from out the low river bottom came that pair of fiery eyes. Who acts: while. 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 27

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All the while across the dark from out the low river bottom came that pair of fiery eyes.

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**Who acts:** while · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** pair

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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 (while), 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:pg338:11:27
# text = All the while across the dark from out the low river bottom came that pair of fiery eyes.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | all while across the dark from the low river bottom | that pair of fiery eyes |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=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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