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title: Soon carrying easily a bundle of long willows on her back, with a lo… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon carrying easily a bundle of long willows on her back, with a loop of rope over both her shoulders, she came striding homeward. Who acts: willow. 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 15

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Soon carrying easily a bundle of long willows on her back, with a loop of rope over both her shoulders, she came striding homeward.

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**Who acts:** willow · **What happens:** carry, come, stride · **To what, where:** bundle, back, homeward

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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 (willow), 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:pg338:12:15
# text = Soon carrying easily a bundle of long willows on her back, with a loop of rope over both her shoulders, she came striding homeward.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
3	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc:preconj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	striding	stride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund | willow *not said here* | a bundle of long willows |  | willow's back |  | with a loop of rope; over willow's shoulders; easily, soon *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | willow |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stride** | gerund | willow *not said here* | homeward |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory |

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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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