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title: “The earth is our common ear, to carry from its uttermost extremes o… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “The earth is our common ear, to carry from its uttermost extremes one's slightest wish for the other!” Who acts: earth, one. 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 31

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“The earth is our common ear, to carry from its uttermost extremes one's slightest wish for the other!”

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**Who acts:** earth, one · **What happens:** be, carry, wish · **To what, where:** common ear, uttermost extremes

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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 (earth, one), 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:pg338:14:31
# text = “The earth is our common ear, to carry from its uttermost extremes one's slightest wish for the other!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	uttermost	uttermost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	extremes	extreme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the earth | our common ear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the earth *not said here* |  |  | earth's uttermost extremes  one's slightest wish |  | for the other | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from extreme=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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