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title: After a little while the vain peacock, dizzy with his bright colors,… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After a little while the vain peacock, dizzy with his bright colors, spread out his wings and lit on the same branch with the elder bird. Who acts: bright colors. 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 33

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After a little while the vain peacock, dizzy with his bright colors, spread out his wings and lit on the same branch with the elder bird.

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**Who acts:** bright colors · **What happens:** spread out, lit · **To what, where:** wings, same branch

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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 (bright colors), 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:pg338:6:33
# text = After a little while the vain peacock, dizzy with his bright colors, spread out his wings and lit on the same branch with the elder bird.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | participle | bird's bright colors *not said here* | bird's wings |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
| 2 | **lit** | participle | bird's bright colors *not said here* |  |  | the same branch with the elder bird |  |  | tree rules |

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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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