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title: All too late, the sturdy breeze returned, and, passing by, pulled ap… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: All too late, the sturdy breeze returned, and, passing by, pulled apart the broken edges of the tree. Who acts: sturdy breeze. 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 152

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All too late, the sturdy breeze returned, and, passing by, pulled apart the broken edges of the tree.

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**Who acts:** sturdy breeze · **What happens:** return, pass by, pull apart, break · **To what, where:** broken edges

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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 (sturdy breeze), 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:pg338:2:152
# text = All too late, the sturdy breeze returned, and, passing by, pulled apart the broken edges of the tree.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	ccomp	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the sturdy breeze |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass by** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pull apart** | past |  | the broken edges of the tree |  |  |  | apart *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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