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title: “Wan!” he ejaculated, pointing his long ears toward the direction of… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wan!” he ejaculated, pointing his long ears toward the direction of the sound; “Wan! that is the work of cruel Double-Face. Who acts: MANSTIN, that. 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 7

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“Wan!” he ejaculated, pointing his long ears toward the direction of the sound; “Wan! that is the work of cruel Double-Face.

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**Who acts:** MANSTIN, that · **What happens:** ejaculate, point, be · **To what, where:** long ears, work

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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 (MANSTIN, that), 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:pg338:14:7
# text = “Wan!” he ejaculated, pointing his long ears toward the direction of the sound; “Wan! that is the work of cruel Double-Face.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ejaculated	ejaculate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	Double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ejaculate** | past | MANSTIN |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **point** | gerund | MANSTIN *not said here* | MANSTIN's long ears |  |  |  | toward the direction of the sound | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the work |  |  |  | of cruel Double Face | tree rules |

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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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