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title: The dripping of amber oil into pearly dishes, drop by drop, pleased… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The dripping of amber oil into pearly dishes, drop by drop, pleased his hungry eyes. Who acts: dripping. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 116

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The dripping of amber oil into pearly dishes, drop by drop, pleased his hungry eyes.

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**Who acts:** dripping · **What happens:** drop

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dripping), 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:pg338:2:116
# text = The dripping of amber oil into pearly dishes, drop by drop, pleased his hungry eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dripping	dripping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	pearly	pearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | infinitive | the dripping of amber oil into pearly dishes |  |  |  |  | by drop | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by drop=Trajectory |

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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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