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title: Ready to greet the stranger, the tall chieftain stood at the entranc… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ready to greet the stranger, the tall chieftain stood at the entrance way. Who acts: Ready. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 12

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Ready to greet the stranger, the tall chieftain stood at the entrance way.

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**Who acts:** Ready · **What happens:** greet, stand · **To what, where:** stranger, entrance way

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ready), 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:pg338:9:12
# text = Ready to greet the stranger, the tall chieftain stood at the entrance way.
1	Ready	ready	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | Ready *not said here* | the stranger |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Ready |  |  | the entrance way |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at way=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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