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title: I would lean back against a tent pole, and with crossed feet I would… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: I would lean back against a tent pole, and with crossed feet I would smoke sweet willow bark the rest of my days,” sighed Manstin. Who acts: I, crossed feet, Grandfather. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 59

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I would lean back against a tent pole, and with crossed feet I would smoke sweet willow bark the rest of my days,” sighed Manstin.

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**Who acts:** I, crossed feet, Grandfather · **What happens:** lean back, cross, smoke, bark, sigh · **To what, where:** tent pole, sweet willow, rest, Manstin

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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 (I, crossed feet, Grandfather), 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:pg338:14:59
# text = I would lean back against a tent pole, and with crossed feet I would smoke sweet willow bark the rest of my days,” sighed Manstin.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	bark	bark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
27	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean back** | would | I |  |  | a tent pole |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pole=Location |
| 2 | **cross** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **smoke** | would | I | sweet willow |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent willow=Source |
| 4 | **bark** | present | crossed feet | the rest of my days |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
| 5 | **sigh** *in a quote* | past | Grandfather *not said here* | Manstin |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manstin=Topic |

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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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