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title: At once he set about to teach the new arrow how to shoot in a long s… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At once he set about to teach the new arrow how to shoot in a long straight line. Who acts: magician, new arrow. 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 81

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At once he set about to teach the new arrow how to shoot in a long straight line.

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**Who acts:** magician, new arrow · **What happens:** set about, teach, shoot · **To what, where:** new arrow, long straight line

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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 (magician, new arrow), 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:pg338:6:81
# text = At once he set about to teach the new arrow how to shoot in a long straight line.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set about** | past | magician |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn begin-55.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | magician *not said here* | the new arrow |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent arrow=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | the new arrow *not said here* |  |  | a long straight line |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in line=Destination |

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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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