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title: Too shy for words, yet too kind-hearted to leave the stranger tree-b… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Too shy for words, yet too kind-hearted to leave the stranger tree-bound, she cut loose the whole bark. Who acts: toss. 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 138

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Too shy for words, yet too kind-hearted to leave the stranger tree-bound, she cut loose the whole bark.

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**Who acts:** toss · **What happens:** leave, cut, lose · **To what, where:** stranger tree bound, whole bark

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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 (toss), 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:pg338:8:138
# text = Too shy for words, yet too kind-hearted to leave the stranger tree-bound, she cut loose the whole bark.
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	loose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | the stranger tree bound |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | toss |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | infinitive | toss *not said here* | the whole bark |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Eventuality |

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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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