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title: The crier came forward to greet the chieftain, then bent attentively… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The crier came forward to greet the chieftain, then bent attentively over the small babe, listening to the words of the chieftain. Who acts: crier. 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 40

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The crier came forward to greet the chieftain, then bent attentively over the small babe, listening to the words of the chieftain.

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**Who acts:** crier · **What happens:** come forward, greet, bend, listen, word · **To what, where:** chieftain, small babe

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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 (crier), 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:pg338:13:40
# text = The crier came forward to greet the chieftain, then bent attentively over the small babe, listening to the words of the chieftain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come forward** | past | the crier |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | the crier *not said here* | the chieftain |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chieftain=Theme |
| 3 | **bend** | participle |  | the chieftain *not said here* |  | the small babe | then | attentively *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over babe=Location |
| 4 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the words of the chieftain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | the chieftain |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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