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title: As they were talking excitedly, waving their fists in violent gestur… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: As they were talking excitedly, waving their fists in violent gestures, a wind came and blew the Ashes away. Who acts: people, wind. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 2

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As they were talking excitedly, waving their fists in violent gestures, a wind came and blew the Ashes away.

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**Who acts:** people, wind · **What happens:** talk, wave, come, blow away · **To what, where:** fists, Ashes

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, wind), 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:pg338:15:2
# text = As they were talking excitedly, waving their fists in violent gestures, a wind came and blew the Ashes away.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	excitedly	excitedly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Ashes	Ash	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | people |  |  |  |  | excitedly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund | people *not said here* | people's fists |  |  |  | in violent gestures | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fist=Patient in gesture=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | a wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **blow away** | past | a wind *not said here* | the Ashes |  |  |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ash=Patient |

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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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