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title: In another instant he held up in both his hands a tiny little baby,… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In another instant he held up in both his hands a tiny little baby, wrapped in soft brown buckskins. 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 6

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In another instant he held up in both his hands a tiny little baby, wrapped in soft brown buckskins.

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**Who acts:** Hunhe · **What happens:** hold up, wrap · **To what, where:** instant, tiny little baby, soft brown buckskins

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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:pg338:13:6
# text = In another instant he held up in both his hands a tiny little baby, wrapped in soft brown buckskins.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc:preconj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | past | Hunhe |  |  | another instant |  | in Hunhe's hands | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle |  | a tiny little baby *not said here* |  | soft brown buckskins |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in buckskin=Destination |

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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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