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title: Rejoicing, the old grandfather started away with his young eyes whil… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Rejoicing, the old grandfather started away with his young eyes while the blind rabbit filled his dream pipe, leaning lazily against the tent pole. Who acts: old grandfather, blind rabbit. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 67

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Rejoicing, the old grandfather started away with his young eyes while the blind rabbit filled his dream pipe, leaning lazily against the tent pole.

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**Who acts:** old grandfather, blind rabbit · **What happens:** rejoice, start away, fill, lean · **To what, where:** dream pipe, tent pole

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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 (old grandfather, blind rabbit), 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:pg338:14:67
# text = Rejoicing, the old grandfather started away with his young eyes while the blind rabbit filled his dream pipe, leaning lazily against the tent pole.
1	Rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | gerund | the old grandfather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **start away** | past | the old grandfather |  |  |  |  | with grandfather's young eyes; away *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with eye=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **fill** | past | the blind rabbit | grandfather's dream pipe |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient |
| 4 | **lean** | gerund | the blind rabbit *not said here* |  |  | the tent pole |  | lazily *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pole=Location |

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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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