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title: Then a wise chief said: “Iya, the Eater, shall come and swallow the… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a wise chief said: “Iya, the Eater, shall come and swallow the lake!” Who acts: wise chief, Iya. 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 64

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Then a wise chief said: “Iya, the Eater, shall come and swallow the lake!”

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**Who acts:** wise chief, Iya · **What happens:** say, come, swallow · **To what, where:** lake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wise chief, Iya), 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:pg338:15:64
# text = Then a wise chief said: “Iya, the Eater, shall come and swallow the lake!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Iya	Iya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Eater	Eater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | a wise chief |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | shall | Iya |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swallow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Iya *not said here* | the lake |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=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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