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title: Seeing the racks of red meat hanging in the yard, he had come to vis… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing the racks of red meat hanging in the yard, he had come to visit the badger family. Who acts: foot, red meat. 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 28

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Seeing the racks of red meat hanging in the yard, he had come to visit the badger family.

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**Who acts:** foot, red meat · **What happens:** see, hang, come, visit · **To what, where:** racks, badger family

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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 (foot, red meat), 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:pg338:7:28
# text = Seeing the racks of red meat hanging in the yard, he had come to visit the badger family.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	racks	rack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | foot *not said here* | the racks of red meat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rack=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | red meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the yard | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in yard=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | foot |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | foot *not said here* | the badger family |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Co-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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