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title: Seeing himself deserted, he threw off his baby form in a hot rage. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing himself deserted, he threw off his baby form in a hot rage. Who acts: Seeing, sun. 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 99

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Seeing himself deserted, he threw off his baby form in a hot rage.

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**Who acts:** Seeing, sun · **What happens:** see, desert, throw off, form · **To what, where:** sun, baby form, hot rage

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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 (Seeing, sun), 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:pg338:13:99
# text = Seeing himself deserted, he threw off his baby form in a hot rage.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	deserted	desert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | sun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 2 | **desert** | past | Seeing |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **throw off** | past | sun | sun's baby form |  | a hot rage |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent form=Theme in rage=Destination |
| 4 | **form** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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