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title: Neither of the warriors carried weapons with them, and their unimpos… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither of the warriors carried weapons with them, and their unimposing stature misled the curious people. Who acts: Neither, unimposing stature. 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 29

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Neither of the warriors carried weapons with them, and their unimposing stature misled the curious people.

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**Who acts:** Neither, unimposing stature · **What happens:** carry, mislead · **To what, where:** weapons, curious people

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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 (Neither, unimposing stature), 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:pg338:15:29
# text = Neither of the warriors carried weapons with them, and their unimposing stature misled the curious people.
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	unimposing	unimposing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	misled	mislead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Neither | weapons |  |  |  | with people | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 2 | **mislead** | past | people's unimposing stature | the curious people |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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