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title: With wings outspread, tip to tip, they moved up and down in a large… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With wings outspread, tip to tip, they moved up and down in a large circle. Who acts: you, wings. 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 33

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With wings outspread, tip to tip, they moved up and down in a large circle.

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**Who acts:** you, wings · **What happens:** outspread, tip, move up · **To what, where:** wings, large circle

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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 (you, wings), 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:pg338:2:33
# text = With wings outspread, tip to tip, they moved up and down in a large circle.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	outspread	outspread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	tip	tip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	tip	tip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	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 | **outspread** | participle |  | wings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tip** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wings | tree rules |
| 3 | **tip** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **move up** | past | wings *= wing* |  |  | a large circle |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=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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