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title: The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one lonely dwelling. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one lonely dwelling. Who acts: teepees. 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 38

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The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one lonely dwelling.

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**Who acts:** teepees · **What happens:** be, save, dwell · **To what, where:** one

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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 (teepees), 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:pg338:12:38
# text = The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one lonely dwelling.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the teepees around the lakes |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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