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title: Then pausing a moment, he set his fan-like ears to catch any sound o… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then pausing a moment, he set his fan-like ears to catch any sound of approaching footsteps. Who acts: Hin. 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 87

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Then pausing a moment, he set his fan-like ears to catch any sound of approaching footsteps.

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**Who acts:** Hin · **What happens:** pause, set, catch, approach · **To what, where:** like ears, sound

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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 (Hin), 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:pg338:14:87
# text = Then pausing a moment, he set his fan-like ears to catch any sound of approaching footsteps.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | gerund | Hin *not said here* |  |  |  | then; moment |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | past | Hin | Hin's like ears |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ear=Result |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Hin *not said here* | any sound of approaching footsteps |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 4 | **approach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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