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title: Upon his return, the cry of the little ones for meat, the sad quiet… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon his return, the cry of the little ones for meat, the sad quiet of the mother with bowed head, hurt him like a poisoned arrow wound. Who acts: you, distance, little ones. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 87

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Upon his return, the cry of the little ones for meat, the sad quiet of the mother with bowed head, hurt him like a poisoned arrow wound.

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**Who acts:** you, distance, little ones · **What happens:** bow, hurt, poison, return, cry · **To what, where:** distance

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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 (you, distance, little ones), 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:pg338:7:87
# text = Upon his return, the cry of the little ones for meat, the sad quiet of the mother with bowed head, hurt him like a poisoned arrow wound.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
29	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | imperative | you *not said here* | distance |  |  |  | upon distance's return and the cry of the little ones for meat and the sad quiet of the mother with bowed head; like a poisoned arrow wound | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
| 3 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** |  | distance |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **cry** |  | the little ones for meat |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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