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title: Strong straight arrows with red feathered tips sped upward to the bl… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Strong straight arrows with red feathered tips sped upward to the blue sky. Who acts: Strong straight arrows. 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 33

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Strong straight arrows with red feathered tips sped upward to the blue sky.

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**Who acts:** Strong straight arrows · **What happens:** speed · **To what, where:** blue sky

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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 (Strong straight arrows), 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:pg338:8:33
# text = Strong straight arrows with red feathered tips sped upward to the blue sky.
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	feathered	feathered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past | Strong straight arrows with red feathered tips |  |  | the blue sky |  | upward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sky=Destination |

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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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