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title: The sunset poured a soft mellow light upon the huge gray stone and t… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The sunset poured a soft mellow light upon the huge gray stone and the solitary figure beside it. Who acts: sunset. 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 24

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The sunset poured a soft mellow light upon the huge gray stone and the solitary figure beside it.

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**Who acts:** sunset · **What happens:** pour · **To what, where:** soft mellow light

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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 (sunset), 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:pg338:3:24
# text = The sunset poured a soft mellow light upon the huge gray stone and the solitary figure beside it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	mellow	mellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | past | the sunset | a soft mellow light |  |  |  | upon the huge gray stone and the solitary figure beside figure | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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