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title: All unconscious of those fearful eyes, the happy mice nibbled at dri… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: All unconscious of those fearful eyes, the happy mice nibbled at dried roots and venison. 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 29

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All unconscious of those fearful eyes, the happy mice nibbled at dried roots and venison.

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**What happens:** nibble, dry · **To what, where:** happy mice

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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: 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:pg338:11:29
# text = All unconscious of those fearful eyes, the happy mice nibbled at dried roots and venison.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	unconscious	unconscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
11	nibbled	nibble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	venison	venison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nibble** | participle |  | the happy mice *not said here* |  |  |  | at dried roots and venison | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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