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title: Now, in her great desire to keep the stolen boy awhile longer, she v… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, in her great desire to keep the stolen boy awhile longer, she ventured to cry as the Dakota woman does. Who acts: pair, Dakota woman. 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 66

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Now, in her great desire to keep the stolen boy awhile longer, she ventured to cry as the Dakota woman does.

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**Who acts:** pair, Dakota woman · **What happens:** keep, steal, venture, cry, do, desire · **To what, where:** stolen boy

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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 (pair, Dakota woman), 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:pg338:12:66
# text = Now, in her great desire to keep the stolen boy awhile longer, she ventured to cry as the Dakota woman does.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the stolen boy |  |  |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **venture** | past | pair |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | pair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | present | the Dakota woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **desire** |  | pair |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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