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title: At once his eyes became fixed upon the solitary dwelling and hither… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At once his eyes became fixed upon the solitary dwelling and hither he followed his curiosity,--a real blind man's rope. Who acts: eyes, solitary, man. 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 42

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At once his eyes became fixed upon the solitary dwelling and hither he followed his curiosity,--a real blind man's rope.

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**Who acts:** eyes, solitary, man · **What happens:** become, fix, dwell, follow · **To what, where:** curiosity

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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 (eyes, solitary, man), 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:pg338:14:42
# text = At once his eyes became fixed upon the solitary dwelling and hither he followed his curiosity,--a real blind man's rope.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	solitary	solitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | man's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | participle | man's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the solitary | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **dwell** | gerund | the solitary *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | man | man's curiosity and a real blind man's rope |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Theme |

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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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