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title: Imitating the swaying strides of the avenger, he walked away with a… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Imitating the swaying strides of the avenger, he walked away with a face turned slightly skyward. Who acts: Iktomi. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 123

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Imitating the swaying strides of the avenger, he walked away with a face turned slightly skyward.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** imitate, sway, walk away, turn, stride · **To what, where:** swaying strides, face, avenger

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi), 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:pg338:8:123
# text = Imitating the swaying strides of the avenger, he walked away with a face turned slightly skyward.
1	Imitating	imitate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	skyward	skyward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imitate** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | the swaying strides of the avenger |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stride=Theme |
| 2 | **sway** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk away** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  |  | with a face; away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | participle |  | a face *not said here* |  |  |  | skyward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stride** |  |  | the avenger |  |  |  |  | nom stride «act 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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