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title: But the chilly night wind quite froze his ardent thank-offering. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But the chilly night wind quite froze his ardent thank-offering. Who acts: chilly night wind, wind. 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 52

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But the chilly night wind quite froze his ardent thank-offering.

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**Who acts:** chilly night wind, wind · **What happens:** freeze, offer · **To what, where:** ardent thank offering

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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 (chilly night wind, wind), 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:pg338:3:52
# text = But the chilly night wind quite froze his ardent thank-offering.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	chilly	chilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ardent	ardent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	thank	thank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | past | the chilly night wind | wind's ardent thank offering |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient offering=Result |
| 2 | **offer** |  | wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=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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