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title: Still unaffected by the myriad moons he rested on the everlasting hi… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Still unaffected by the myriad moons he rested on the everlasting hill, listening to the prayers of Indian warriors. Who acts: Inyan, Indian warriors. 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 21

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Still unaffected by the myriad moons he rested on the everlasting hill, listening to the prayers of Indian warriors.

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**Who acts:** Inyan, Indian warriors · **What happens:** rest, listen, pray · **To what, where:** myriad moons, everlasting hill

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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 (Inyan, Indian warriors), 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:pg338:3:21
# text = Still unaffected by the myriad moons he rested on the everlasting hill, listening to the prayers of Indian warriors.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	unaffected	unaffected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	myriad	myriad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | Inyan | the myriad moons *not said here* |  | the everlasting hill |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme on hill=Location |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | Inyan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the prayers of Indian warriors | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to prayer=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** |  | Indian warriors |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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