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title: Suddenly exclaiming “Hunhe!” he dropped out of sight. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly exclaiming “Hunhe!” he dropped out of sight. Who acts: Hunhe. 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 5

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Suddenly exclaiming “Hunhe!” he dropped out of sight.

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**Who acts:** Hunhe · **What happens:** exclaim, drop out · **To what, where:** Hunhe, sight

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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 (Hunhe), 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:pg338:13:5
# text = Suddenly exclaiming “Hunhe!” he dropped out of sight.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hunhe	Hunhe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | Hunhe *not said here* | Hunhe |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hunhe=Topic |
| 2 | **drop out** | past | Hunhe | sight |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |

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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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