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title: With a wicked gleaming eye, he watched the little black-haired baby… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With a wicked gleaming eye, he watched the little black-haired baby he held in his strong arm. Who acts: giant. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 11

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With a wicked gleaming eye, he watched the little black-haired baby he held in his strong arm.

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**Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** watch, hold · **To what, where:** little black haired baby, strong arm

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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:pg338:14:11
# text = With a wicked gleaming eye, he watched the little black-haired baby he held in his strong arm.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	gleaming	gleaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | giant | the little black haired baby |  |  |  | with a wicked gleaming eye | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | giant | the little black haired baby *not said here* |  | giant's strong arm |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in arm=Location |

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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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