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title: In silence the hunter stood aside, while the happy father and mother… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In silence the hunter stood aside, while the happy father and mother caressed their baby boy grown tall. Who acts: hunter, happy father. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 100

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In silence the hunter stood aside, while the happy father and mother caressed their baby boy grown tall.

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**Who acts:** hunter, happy father · **What happens:** stand, caress, grow · **To what, where:** silence, baby boy

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter, happy father), 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:pg338:12:100
# text = In silence the hunter stood aside, while the happy father and mother caressed their baby boy grown tall.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	caressed	caress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
19	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the hunter |  |  | silence |  | aside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |
| 2 | **caress** | past | the happy father and mother | hunters's baby boy |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow** | participle | the happy father and mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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