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title: They laughed and pointed with their wee noses upward at the thin sli… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They laughed and pointed with their wee noses upward at the thin sliced meats upon the poles. Who acts: cubs, thin. 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 94

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They laughed and pointed with their wee noses upward at the thin sliced meats upon the poles.

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**Who acts:** cubs, thin · **What happens:** laugh, point, slice · **To what, where:** meats, poles

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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 (cubs, thin), 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:pg338:7:94
# text = They laughed and pointed with their wee noses upward at the thin sliced meats upon the poles.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sliced	slice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | cubs *= cub* |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **point** | past | cubs *= cub* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with cubs's wee noses | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slice** | past | the thin | meats |  | the poles |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Patient upon pole=Location |

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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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