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title: His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's b… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance. Who acts: brink. 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 36

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His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance.

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**Who acts:** brink · **What happens:** catch, stake, lead away, sight · **To what, where:** rawhide rope, small round hut

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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 (brink), 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:pg338:14:36
# text = His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	alert	alert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rawhide	rawhide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	staked	stake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stake** | participle |  | a rawhide rope *not said here* |  |  |  | to the water's brink *result* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to brink=Result |
| 3 | **lead away** | past | the water's brink |  |  | a small round hut in the distance |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toward hut=Destination |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | a rawhide rope |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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