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title: Never turn a curve nor jump about like a young fawn,” said the arrow… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Never turn a curve nor jump about like a young fawn,” said the arrow magician. Who acts: arrow magician. 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 79

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Never turn a curve nor jump about like a young fawn,” said the arrow magician.

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**Who acts:** arrow magician · **What happens:** not turn, jump about, say · **To what, where:** curve · **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 (arrow magician), 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:pg338:6:79
# text = Never turn a curve nor jump about like a young fawn,” said the arrow magician.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **turn** | infinitive |  | a curve |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent curve=Theme |
| 2 | **jump about** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like a young fawn; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the arrow magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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