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title: He is coming now to kill the big red eagle.” — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He is coming now to kill the big red eagle.” Who acts: bow. 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 65

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He is coming now to kill the big red eagle.”

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**Who acts:** bow · **What happens:** come, kill · **To what, where:** big red eagle

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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 (bow), 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:pg338:8:65
# text = He is coming now to kill the big red eagle.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · progressive | bow |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | bow *not said here* | the big red eagle |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=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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