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title: The young avenger walked with swaying strides nearer and nearer towa… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The young avenger walked with swaying strides nearer and nearer toward the lonely wigwam and tree. Who acts: young avenger. 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 85

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The young avenger walked with swaying strides nearer and nearer toward the lonely wigwam and tree.

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**Who acts:** young avenger · **What happens:** walk, sway

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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 (young avenger), 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:pg338:8:85
# text = The young avenger walked with swaying strides nearer and nearer toward the lonely wigwam and tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
11	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the young avenger |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sway** | gerund | the young avenger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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