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title: “If he is the avenger with the magic arrow, sprung up from the earth… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “If he is the avenger with the magic arrow, sprung up from the earth out of a clot of buffalo blood, bid him come hither. Who acts: tale, you. 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 55

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“If he is the avenger with the magic arrow, sprung up from the earth out of a clot of buffalo blood, bid him come hither.

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**Who acts:** tale, you · **What happens:** be, spring up, bid, come · **To what, where:** avenger, earth, tale

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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 (tale, you), 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:pg338:8:55
# text = “If he is the avenger with the magic arrow, sprung up from the earth out of a clot of buffalo blood, bid him come hither.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	clot	clot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
25	bid	bid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | tale | the avenger |  |  |  | with the magic arrow | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring up** *in a quote* | participle |  | the avenger *not said here* |  | the earth out a clot of buffalo blood |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bid** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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