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title: With his feet placed gently yet firmly upon the tiny toes of the lit… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With his feet placed gently yet firmly upon the tiny toes of the little child, he drew upward by each small hand the sleeping child till he was a full-grown man. Who acts: MANSTIN. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 28

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With his feet placed gently yet firmly upon the tiny toes of the little child, he drew upward by each small hand the sleeping child till he was a full-grown man.

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**Who acts:** MANSTIN · **What happens:** place, draw, grow, be · **To what, where:** feet, tiny toes, grown man

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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 (MANSTIN), 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:pg338:14:28
# text = With his feet placed gently yet firmly upon the tiny toes of the little child, he drew upward by each small hand the sleeping child till he was a full-grown man.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
4	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | participle |  | MANSTIN's feet *not said here* |  | the tiny toes of the little child |  | firmly, gently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon toe=Destination |
| 2 | **draw** | past | MANSTIN |  |  |  |  | with MANSTIN's feet; by each small hand and the sleeping child; upward *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | MANSTIN | a grown man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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