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title: The young avenger, always ready to help those in distress, sent an a… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The young avenger, always ready to help those in distress, sent an arrow upward and the bird fell. Who acts: arrow, young avenger, 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 93

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The young avenger, always ready to help those in distress, sent an arrow upward and the bird fell.

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**Who acts:** arrow, young avenger, bird · **What happens:** help, send, fall · **To what, where:** those, distress, arrow

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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 (arrow, young avenger, 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:pg338:8:93
# text = The young avenger, always ready to help those in distress, sent an arrow upward and the bird fell.
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	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | to-infinitive | a arrow *not said here* | those |  | distress |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **send** | past | the young avenger | a arrow |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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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