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title: The flock of flying feathers wheeled about and lowered over the tree… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The flock of flying feathers wheeled about and lowered over the tree whence came the peacock's cry. Who acts: flock, 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 54

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The flock of flying feathers wheeled about and lowered over the tree whence came the peacock's cry.

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**Who acts:** flock, peacock · **What happens:** fly, wheel about, lower, come, cry · **To what, where:** tree, cry

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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 (flock, 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:pg338:6:54
# text = The flock of flying feathers wheeled about and lowered over the tree whence came the peacock's cry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lowered	lower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wheel about** | past | the flock of flying feathers |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lower** | past | the flock of flying feathers *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over tree=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | the flock of flying feathers *not said here* | the peacock's cry |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cry=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** |  | the peacock |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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