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title: The tallest one among them hastened toward the high grass with long,… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The tallest one among them hastened toward the high grass with long, cautious strides. 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 3

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The tallest one among them hastened toward the high grass with long, cautious strides.

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**What happens:** hasten · **To what, where:** tallest one, high grass

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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: 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:pg338:13:3
# text = The tallest one among them hastened toward the high grass with long, cautious strides.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle |  | the tallest one among huntsmen *not said here* |  | the high grass |  | with long cautious strides | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward grass=Trajectory |

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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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