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title: I have had pleasure seeing with your eyes and trying your bow and ar… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: I have had pleasure seeing with your eyes and trying your bow and arrows, but since I am old and feeble I much prefer my own teepee and my magic bags!” Who acts: I, pleasure. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 99

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I have had pleasure seeing with your eyes and trying your bow and arrows, but since I am old and feeble I much prefer my own teepee and my magic bags!”

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**Who acts:** I, pleasure · **What happens:** have, see, try, be, prefer · **To what, where:** pleasure, bow, own teepee

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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 (I, pleasure), 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:pg338:14:99
# text = I have had pleasure seeing with your eyes and trying your bow and arrows, but since I am old and feeble I much prefer my own teepee and my magic bags!”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | I | pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | pleasure *not said here* | your bow and arrows |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **prefer** | present | I | my own teepee and my magic bags |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer teepee=Stimulus |

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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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