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title: With perspiration beading his brow he strove to wiggle his slender l… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With perspiration beading his brow he strove to wiggle his slender legs beneath his giant form. Who acts: perspiration, sun. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 105

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With perspiration beading his brow he strove to wiggle his slender legs beneath his giant form.

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**Who acts:** perspiration, sun · **What happens:** bead, strive, wiggle, form · **To what, where:** brow, slender legs

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perspiration, sun), 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:pg338:13:105
# text = With perspiration beading his brow he strove to wiggle his slender legs beneath his giant form.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	beading	bead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	wiggle	wiggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bead** | gerund | perspiration *not said here* | sun's brow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Product |
| 2 | **strive** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | with perspiration | tree rules |
| 3 | **wiggle** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | sun's slender legs |  |  |  | beneath sun's giant form | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 4 | **form** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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