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title: “He is going to make a feast for some hungry tribe of men or beasts!… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “He is going to make a feast for some hungry tribe of men or beasts!” cried the hunters among themselves as they hastened away. Who acts: buffalo, hunters. 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 51

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“He is going to make a feast for some hungry tribe of men or beasts!” cried the hunters among themselves as they hastened away.

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**Who acts:** buffalo, hunters · **What happens:** go, make, cry, hasten away · **To what, where:** feast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (buffalo, hunters), 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:pg338:8:51
# text = “He is going to make a feast for some hungry tribe of men or beasts!” cried the hunters among themselves as they hastened away.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
19	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | buffalo |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | buffalo *not said here* | a feast |  |  |  | for some hungry tribe of men or beasts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent feast=Product for tribe=Asset |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the hunters |  |  |  |  | among men *= man* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hasten away** | past | hunters *= hunter* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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