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title: Let him win for himself one of my beautiful daughters,” he had said… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Let him win for himself one of my beautiful daughters,” he had said to his messengers, for the old story of the badger's man-son was known all over the level lands. Who acts: you, tale, level. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 57

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Let him win for himself one of my beautiful daughters,” he had said to his messengers, for the old story of the badger's man-son was known all over the level lands.

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**Who acts:** you, tale, level · **What happens:** let, win, say, know, land · **To what, where:** tale, messengers · **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 (you, tale, level), 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:pg338:8:57
# text = Let him win for himself one of my beautiful daughters,” he had said to his messengers, for the old story of the badger's man-son was known all over the level lands.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	parataxis	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | infinitive | tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for one of my beautiful daughters | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for one=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · perfect | tale |  | tale's messengers |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to messenger=Recipient |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the badger's man son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of son=Stimulus |
| 5 | **land** *in a quote* | present | the level |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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