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title: “Such spindle legs cannot stand to fight by daylight!” shouted the b… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Such spindle legs cannot stand to fight by daylight!” shouted the brave ones who were terror-struck the night before by the name “Iya.” Who acts: Such spindle legs, brave ones, name. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 107

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“Such spindle legs cannot stand to fight by daylight!” shouted the brave ones who were terror-struck the night before by the name “Iya.”

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**Who acts:** Such spindle legs, brave ones, name · **What happens:** not stand, fight, shout, strike · **To what, where:** brave ones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Such spindle legs, brave ones, name), 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:pg338:13:107
# text = “Such spindle legs cannot stand to fight by daylight!” shouted the brave ones who were terror-struck the night before by the name “Iya.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
20	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Iya	Iya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** *in a quote* | can | Such spindle legs |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Such spindle legs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by daylight | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the brave ones |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **strike** | past · passive | the name | the brave ones |  |  | night | before *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |

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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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