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title: Complaining of fatigue, he covered his face with his blanket and soo… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Complaining of fatigue, he covered his face with his blanket and soon within the chieftain's teepee he lay fast asleep. Who acts: stranger, teepee. 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 20

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Complaining of fatigue, he covered his face with his blanket and soon within the chieftain's teepee he lay fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** stranger, teepee · **What happens:** complain, cover, lie · **To what, where:** face

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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, teepee), 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:pg338:9:20
# text = Complaining of fatigue, he covered his face with his blanket and soon within the chieftain's teepee he lay fast asleep.
1	Complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fatigue | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cover** | past | stranger | stranger's face |  |  |  | with stranger's blanket | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with blanket=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the chieftain's teepee |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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