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title: “Tell the people that I give a feast and dance this day for the nami… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Tell the people that I give a feast and dance this day for the naming of my daughter's little son,” bade the chieftain. Who acts: you, infant. 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 18

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“Tell the people that I give a feast and dance this day for the naming of my daughter's little son,” bade the chieftain.

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**Who acts:** you, infant · **What happens:** tell, give, dance, name · **To what, where:** bade, people, little son · **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 (you, infant), 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:pg338:13:18
# text = “Tell the people that I give a feast and dance this day for the naming of my daughter's little son,” bade the chieftain.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	naming	naming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
25	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | bade | the people |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present | infant | the people |  |  | day | for the naming of my daughter's little son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent that=Recipient feast=Theme for naming=Asset |
| 3 | **dance** *in a quote* | present | infant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | my daughter's little son |  |  |  |  | nom naming «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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