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title: Running with clinched fists to the nearest teepees, she called: “Has… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Running with clinched fists to the nearest teepees, she called: “Has any one seen my baby? Who acts: sign. 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 22

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Running with clinched fists to the nearest teepees, she called: “Has any one seen my baby?

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**Who acts:** sign · **What happens:** run, clinch, call, have, see · **To what, where:** one seen baby · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sign), 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:pg338:12:22
# text = Running with clinched fists to the nearest teepees, she called: “Has any one seen my baby?
1	Running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	clinched	clinch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | sign *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with clinched fists; to the nearest teepees *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to teepee=Result |
| 2 | **clinch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** *speech: ask* | past | sign |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | my one seen baby |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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