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title: Men in loose deerskins, with long tinkling metal fringes, strode in… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Men in loose deerskins, with long tinkling metal fringes, strode in small numbers toward the center of the round camp ground. Who acts: Men. 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 33

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Men in loose deerskins, with long tinkling metal fringes, strode in small numbers toward the center of the round camp ground.

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**Who acts:** Men · **What happens:** stride · **To what, where:** small numbers

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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 (Men), 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:pg338:13:33
# text = Men in loose deerskins, with long tinkling metal fringes, strode in small numbers toward the center of the round camp ground.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	deerskins	deerskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tinkling	tinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stride** | past | Men in loose deerskins and metal fringes |  |  | small numbers |  | toward the center of the round camp ground | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=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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