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title: With shaking knees and hard-set teeth, the women peered out upon the… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With shaking knees and hard-set teeth, the women peered out upon the Dakota men prowling about with bows and arrows. Who acts: women, Dakota men. 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 27

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With shaking knees and hard-set teeth, the women peered out upon the Dakota men prowling about with bows and arrows.

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**Who acts:** women, Dakota men · **What happens:** set, peer out, prowl

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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 (women, Dakota men), 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:pg338:8:27
# text = With shaking knees and hard-set teeth, the women peered out upon the Dakota men prowling about with bows and arrows.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	peered	peer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	prowling	prowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **peer out** | past | the women |  |  |  |  | with shaking knees and set teeth; out *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prowl** | gerund | the Dakota men |  |  |  |  | with bows and arrows; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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