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title: Therefore the five went on the more quickly to make war. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore the five went on the more quickly to make war. Who acts: five. 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 8

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Therefore the five went on the more quickly to make war.

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**Who acts:** five · **What happens:** go, make · **To what, where:** war

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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 (five), 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:pg338:15:8
# text = Therefore the five went on the more quickly to make war.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the five |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on quickly=Location |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | the five *not said here* | war |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |

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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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