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title: Hereupon the slender arrow tapped him gently with his sharp flint be… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hereupon the slender arrow tapped him gently with his sharp flint beak. 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 75

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Hereupon the slender arrow tapped him gently with his sharp flint beak.

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**Who acts:** Hereupon · **What happens:** tap · **To what, where:** Iktomi

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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:pg338:6:75
# text = Hereupon the slender arrow tapped him gently with his sharp flint beak.
1	Hereupon	Hereupon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tapped	tap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tap** | past | Hereupon | Iktomi |  |  |  | with Iktomi's sharp flint beak; gently *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with beak=Instrument |

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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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