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title: But unlike other arrows it pierced through the head of the creature… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But unlike other arrows it pierced through the head of the creature and spinning in the air lit into the next buffalo head. Who acts: creature. 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 45

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But unlike other arrows it pierced through the head of the creature and spinning in the air lit into the next buffalo head.

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**Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** pierce, spin, lit · **To what, where:** arrow, air, next buffalo head

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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 (creature), 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:pg338:8:45
# text = But unlike other arrows it pierced through the head of the creature and spinning in the air lit into the next buffalo head.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pierce** | participle · passive |  | arrow |  |  |  | unlike other arrows; through the head of the creature | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: subject=Instrument through head=Patient |
| 2 | **spin** | gerund | the creature *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lit** | participle |  | the air *not said here* |  | the next buffalo head |  |  | 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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