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title: Hereupon the peacock spread out both his wings, and scarce moving th… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hereupon the peacock spread out both his wings, and scarce moving them, he sailed slowly down upon the ground. Who acts: Hereupon. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 20

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Hereupon the peacock spread out both his wings, and scarce moving them, he sailed slowly down upon the ground.

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**Who acts:** Hereupon · **What happens:** spread out, move, sail · **To what, where:** wings

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereupon), 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:pg338:6:20
# text = Hereupon the peacock spread out both his wings, and scarce moving them, he sailed slowly down upon the ground.
1	Hereupon	Hereupon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	_
12	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | past | Hereupon | peacock's wings |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | Hereupon *not said here* | wings *= wing* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **sail** | past | Hereupon |  |  |  |  | upon the ground; down *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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