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title: Then with quick decision he gave command to a fleet horseman to meet… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then with quick decision he gave command to a fleet horseman to meet the avenger. Who acts: 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 43

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Then with quick decision he gave command to a fleet horseman to meet the avenger.

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**Who acts:** chieftain · **What happens:** give, meet · **To what, where:** command, fleet horseman, avenger

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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 (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:pg338:9:43
# text = Then with quick decision he gave command to a fleet horseman to meet the avenger.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	horseman	horseman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | chieftain | command | a fleet horseman |  | then | with quick decision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent command=Theme to horseman=Recipient |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | chieftain *not said here* | the avenger |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avenger=Co-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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