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title: Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quenc… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst. Who acts: water. 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 70

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Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** take, start, quench, thirst · **To what, where:** one, thirst

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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 (water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg338:1212`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:14:70
# text = Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rawhide	rawhide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | water *not said here* | one of the rawhide ropes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | past | water |  |  |  |  | toward the brook | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **quench** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* | water's thirst |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer |
| 4 | **thirst** |  | water |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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