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title: Every autumn with the hunters came the unhappy parents of the lost b… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Every autumn with the hunters came the unhappy parents of the lost baby to search again for him. Who acts: autumn. 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 42

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Every autumn with the hunters came the unhappy parents of the lost baby to search again for him.

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**Who acts:** autumn · **What happens:** come, lose, search · **To what, where:** unhappy parents

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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 (autumn), 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:pg338:12:42
# text = Every autumn with the hunters came the unhappy parents of the lost baby to search again for him.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | every autumn with the hunters | the unhappy parents of the lost baby |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **search** | to-infinitive | every autumn with the hunters *not said here* |  |  |  | again | for child | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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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