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title: His keen starving eyes caught sight of a little red clot lying brigh… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: His keen starving eyes caught sight of a little red clot lying bright upon the green. Who acts: keen, little red clot, father. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 129

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His keen starving eyes caught sight of a little red clot lying bright upon the green.

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**Who acts:** keen, little red clot, father · **What happens:** starve, catch, lie, keen, sight · **To what, where:** eyes, sight, green, little red clot

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (keen, little red clot, father), 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:pg338:7:129
# text = His keen starving eyes caught sight of a little red clot lying bright upon the green.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clot	clot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | gerund | father's keen *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | father's keen | sight of a little red clot |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | a little red clot *not said here* |  |  | the green |  | bright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon green=Location |
| 4 | **keen** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom keen «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | a little red clot |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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