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title: Thus creeping from teepee to teepee a secret alarm signal was given. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus creeping from teepee to teepee a secret alarm signal was given. 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 95

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Thus creeping from teepee to teepee a secret alarm signal was given.

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**What happens:** creep, give · **To what, where:** teepee, secret alarm signal

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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: 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:pg338:13:95
# text = Thus creeping from teepee to teepee a secret alarm signal was given.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  | teepee |  | to teepee; thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to teepee=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | past · passive |  | a secret alarm signal |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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