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title: “Oh, what a shame that bright feathers cannot fly into the sky!” cri… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, what a shame that bright feathers cannot fly into the sky!” cried the peacock. Who acts: bright feathers, peacock. 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 40

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“Oh, what a shame that bright feathers cannot fly into the sky!” cried the peacock.

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**Who acts:** bright feathers, peacock · **What happens:** not fly, cry · **To what, where:** shame, sky · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 feathers, peacock), 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:pg338:6:40
# text = “Oh, what a shame that bright feathers cannot fly into the sky!” cried the peacock.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fly** *in a quote* | can | bright feathers | a shame |  | the sky |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into sky=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the peacock |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP 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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