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title: All around the camp ground from mouth to ear passed those words of t… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: All around the camp ground from mouth to ear passed those words of the returned messengers. 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 66

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All around the camp ground from mouth to ear passed those words of the returned messengers.

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**What happens:** pass, return, word · **To what, where:** words, ear, returned messengers

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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: 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:pg338:8:66
# text = All around the camp ground from mouth to ear passed those words of the returned messengers.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past |  | that words of the returned messengers | ear |  |  | all *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Theme to ear=Recipient |
| 2 | **return** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | the returned messengers |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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