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title: When gallant Manstin returned the child to the eager arms of the mot… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When gallant Manstin returned the child to the eager arms of the mother there came a sudden terror into the eyes of both the Dakotas. Who acts: gallant Manstin, sudden terror. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 21

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When gallant Manstin returned the child to the eager arms of the mother there came a sudden terror into the eyes of both the Dakotas.

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**Who acts:** gallant Manstin, sudden terror · **What happens:** return, come · **To what, where:** child, eager arms, eyes

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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 (gallant Manstin, sudden terror), 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:pg338:14:21
# text = When gallant Manstin returned the child to the eager arms of the mother there came a sudden terror into the eyes of both the Dakotas.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc:preconj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | gallant Manstin | the child |  | the eager arms of the mother |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to arm=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | a sudden terror |  |  | the eyes of the Dakotas |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial\_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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