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title: The all-powerful Great Spirit, who makes the trees and grass, can he… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The all-powerful Great Spirit, who makes the trees and grass, can hear the voice of those who pray in many varied ways. Who acts: powerful Great Spirit. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 17

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The all-powerful Great Spirit, who makes the trees and grass, can hear the voice of those who pray in many varied ways.

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**Who acts:** powerful Great Spirit · **What happens:** make, hear, pray · **To what, where:** trees, voice, many varied ways

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful Great Spirit), 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:pg338:3:17
# text = The all-powerful Great Spirit, who makes the trees and grass, can hear the voice of those who pray in many varied ways.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	varied	varied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the powerful Great Spirit | the trees and grass |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product |
| 2 | **hear** | can | the powerful Great Spirit *not said here* | the voice of those |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pray** | present |  |  |  | many varied ways |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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