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title: And when the bird with the yellow breast sang loud again--“Koda Ni D… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the bird with the yellow breast sang loud again--“Koda Ni Dakota! Who acts: bird. 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 79

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And when the bird with the yellow breast sang loud again--“Koda Ni Dakota!

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** Ni Dakota

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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 (bird), 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:pg338:8:79
# text = And when the bird with the yellow breast sang loud again--“Koda Ni Dakota!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Koda	Koda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Ni	Ni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the bird with the yellow breast | Ni Dakota |  |  | again | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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