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title: With the magic arrow in his quiver the stranger felt not in the leas… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With the magic arrow in his quiver the stranger felt not in the least too presuming in addressing the woman as his mother-in-law. Who acts: stranger, chieftain. 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 19

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With the magic arrow in his quiver the stranger felt not in the least too presuming in addressing the woman as his mother-in-law.

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**Who acts:** stranger, chieftain · **What happens:** not feel, presume, address, quiver · **To what, where:** least, woman

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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 (stranger, chieftain), 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:pg338:9:19
# text = With the magic arrow in his quiver the stranger felt not in the least too presuming in addressing the woman as his mother-in-law.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obl	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	presuming	presume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feel** | past | the stranger |  |  |  |  | with the magic arrow in chieftain's quiver | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **presume** | gerund | the stranger *not said here* | the least |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **address** | gerund | the stranger *not said here* |  | the woman |  |  | as chieftain's mother in law | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Destination |
| 4 | **quiver** |  | chieftain |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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