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title: A young woman, carrying on her strong back a bundle of tightly bound… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A young woman, carrying on her strong back a bundle of tightly bound willow sticks, passed near by the lonely teepee. Who acts: young woman, lonely teepee. 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 127

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A young woman, carrying on her strong back a bundle of tightly bound willow sticks, passed near by the lonely teepee.

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**Who acts:** young woman, lonely teepee · **What happens:** carry, pass · **To what, where:** bundle, strong back, young woman

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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 (young woman, lonely teepee), 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:pg338:8:127
# text = A young woman, carrying on her strong back a bundle of tightly bound willow sticks, passed near by the lonely teepee.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	near	near	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund | a young woman *not said here* | a bundle of bound willow sticks |  | toss's strong back |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | participle · passive | the lonely teepee | a young woman |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |

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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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