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title: That night the star men in their burial procession in the sky reache… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: That night the star men in their burial procession in the sky reached the low northern horizon, before the center fires within the teepees had flickered out. Who acts: star men, center, shins. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle, with its dependency tree and t
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# Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 23

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That night the star men in their burial procession in the sky reached the low northern horizon, before the center fires within the teepees had flickered out.

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**Who acts:** star men, center, shins · **What happens:** reach, fire, flicker out, proceed · **To what, where:** low northern horizon, teepees, sky

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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 (star men, center, shins), 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:pg338:9:23
# text = That night the star men in their burial procession in the sky reached the low northern horizon, before the center fires within the teepees had flickered out.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fires	fire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	flickered	flicker	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the star men in shins's burial procession in the sky | the low northern horizon |  |  | night |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent horizon=Theme |
| 2 | **fire** | present | the center |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flicker out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the teepees |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **proceed** |  | shins *= shin* |  |  | the sky |  |  | nom procession «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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