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title: Ah! slowly moved those indifferent wings, untouched by the poison-be… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! slowly moved those indifferent wings, untouched by the poison-beaked 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 34

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Ah! slowly moved those indifferent wings, untouched by the poison-beaked arrows.

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**What happens:** move, beak · **To what, where:** indifferent wings

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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: 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:pg338:8:34
# text = Ah! slowly moved those indifferent wings, untouched by the poison-beaked arrows.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	untouched	untouched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	beaked	beak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past |  | that indifferent wings |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 2 | **beak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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