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title: Soon he stumbled upon thickly strewn dry willow sticks. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon he stumbled upon thickly strewn dry willow sticks. Who acts: rope. 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 82

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Soon he stumbled upon thickly strewn dry willow sticks.

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**Who acts:** rope · **What happens:** stumble · **To what, where:** thickly strewn dry willow sticks

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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 (rope), 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:pg338:14:82
# text = Soon he stumbled upon thickly strewn dry willow sticks.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stumble** | past | rope |  |  | thickly strewn dry willow sticks |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stick=Trajectory |

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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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