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title: While one of the pair strutted about with a head turned aside as if… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: While one of the pair strutted about with a head turned aside as if dazzled by his own bright-tinted tail feathers, the other bird soared slowly upward. Who acts: one, other bird. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 30

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While one of the pair strutted about with a head turned aside as if dazzled by his own bright-tinted tail feathers, the other bird soared slowly upward.

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**Who acts:** one, other bird · **What happens:** strut, turn, dazzle, tint, soar

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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 (one, other bird), 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:pg338:6:30
# text = While one of the pair strutted about with a head turned aside as if dazzled by his own bright-tinted tail feathers, the other bird soared slowly upward.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	strutted	strut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
19	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tinted	tint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strut** | participle | one of the pair |  |  |  |  | with a head; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | participle | one of the pair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dazzle** | participle | one of the pair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by peacock's own tinted tail feathers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **soar** | past | the other bird |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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