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title: With a word he sent them to their dwellings half running with joy. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With a word he sent them to their dwellings half running with joy. Who acts: camp, dwellings. 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 24

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With a word he sent them to their dwellings half running with joy.

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**Who acts:** camp, dwellings · **What happens:** send, run · **To what, where:** men, dwellings

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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 (camp, dwellings), 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:pg338:13:24
# text = With a word he sent them to their dwellings half running with joy.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	advmod	_	_
11	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | camp | men *= man* |  | men's dwellings |  | with a word | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to dwelling=Destination |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | men's dwellings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with joy; half *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with joy=Material |

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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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