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title: Near the entrance way she stooped low, at once shifting the bundle t… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the entrance way she stooped low, at once shifting the bundle to the right and with both hands lifting the noose from over her head. Who acts: willow, hands. 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 16

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Near the entrance way she stooped low, at once shifting the bundle to the right and with both hands lifting the noose from over her head.

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**Who acts:** willow, hands · **What happens:** stoop, shift, lift · **To what, where:** entrance way, bundle, right, noose, head

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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, hands), 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:pg338:12:16
# text = Near the entrance way she stooped low, at once shifting the bundle to the right and with both hands lifting the noose from over her head.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	shifting	shift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	noose	noose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | willow |  |  | the entrance way |  | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near way=Location |
| 2 | **shift** | gerund | willow *not said here* | the bundle |  | the right and both hands |  | once *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme to right=Destination |
| 3 | **lift** | gerund | both hands *not said here* | the noose |  | willow's head |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noose=Theme from head=Destination |

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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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