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title: Following a winding footpath near by, came a bent figure of a Dakota… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Following a winding footpath near by, came a bent figure of a Dakota brave. Who acts: bent figure. 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 36

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Following a winding footpath near by, came a bent figure of a Dakota brave.

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**Who acts:** bent figure · **What happens:** follow, wind, come, figure · **To what, where:** Dakota

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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 (bent figure), 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:pg338:2:36
# text = Following a winding footpath near by, came a bent figure of a Dakota brave.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	footpath	footpath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wind** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | a bent figure of a Dakota |  |  |  |  | follow a winding footpath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **figure** |  |  | a Dakota |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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