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title: Alone sat the beautiful young mother watching the babe in her lap, a… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Alone sat the beautiful young mother watching the babe in her lap, asleep with a gaping little mouth. Who acts: beautiful young mother. 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 63

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Alone sat the beautiful young mother watching the babe in her lap, asleep with a gaping little mouth.

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**Who acts:** beautiful young mother · **What happens:** sit, watch, gape · **To what, where:** beautiful young mother, babe, lap

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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 (beautiful young mother), 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:pg338:13:63
# text = Alone sat the beautiful young mother watching the babe in her lap, asleep with a gaping little mouth.
1	Alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	gaping	gape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the beautiful young mother |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | the beautiful young mother *not said here* | the babe |  | Proud's lap |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme |
| 3 | **gape** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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