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title: Lo! there rose out of the giant a whole Indian tribe: their camp gro… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Lo! there rose out of the giant a whole Indian tribe: their camp ground, their teepees in a large circle, and the people laughing and dancing. Who acts: people. 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 109

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Lo! there rose out of the giant a whole Indian tribe: their camp ground, their teepees in a large circle, and the people laughing and dancing.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** rise, laugh, dance · **To what, where:** giant whole Indian tribe

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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 (people), 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:pg338:13:109
# text = Lo! there rose out of the giant a whole Indian tribe: their camp ground, their teepees in a large circle, and the people laughing and dancing.
1	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past |  |  |  | the giant whole Indian tribe and Warriors's camp ground and Warriors's teepees in a large circle; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out tribe=Location |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dance** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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