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title: “Hun-he!” exclaimed Manstin, bending over the freshly made footprint… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Hun-he!” exclaimed Manstin, bending over the freshly made footprints in the moist bank of the brook. Who acts: Hun. 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 38

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“Hun-he!” exclaimed Manstin, bending over the freshly made footprints in the moist bank of the brook.

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**Who acts:** Hun · **What happens:** exclaim, bend, make · **To what, where:** Manstin, made footprints

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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 (Hun), 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:pg338:14:38
# text = “Hun-he!” exclaimed Manstin, bending over the freshly made footprints in the moist bank of the brook.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hun	hun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	freshly	freshly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	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 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Hun | Manstin |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent manstin=Topic |
| 2 | **bend** | gerund | Hun *not said here* |  |  | the made footprints in the moist bank of the brook |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over footprint=Location |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | freshly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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