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title: Sometimes when children grow drowsy they blink blue winks, while oth… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes when children grow drowsy they blink blue winks, while others who are too proud to look with friendly eyes upon people blink in this cold bird-manner. Who acts: children, others, people. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote, with its dependency tree and t
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 36

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Sometimes when children grow drowsy they blink blue winks, while others who are too proud to look with friendly eyes upon people blink in this cold bird-manner.

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**Who acts:** children, others, people · **What happens:** grow, blink, be, look · **To what, where:** blue winks, cold bird manner

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, others, people), 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:pg338:5:36
# text = Sometimes when children grow drowsy they blink blue winks, while others who are too proud to look with friendly eyes upon people blink in this cold bird-manner.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	blink	blink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	winks	wink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	blink	blink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
27	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | children |  |  |  |  | drowsy, sometimes *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **blink** | present | children *= child* | blue winks |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wink=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | others |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with friendly eyes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **blink** | present | people |  |  | cold bird manner |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |

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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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