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title: “Clothe him in these my best buckskins,” said he, pointing to a bund… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Clothe him in these my best buckskins,” said he, pointing to a bundle within the wigwam. 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 44

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“Clothe him in these my best buckskins,” said he, pointing to a bundle within the wigwam.

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**Who acts:** chieftain · **What happens:** clothe, say, point · **To what, where:** chieftain, best buckskins, bundle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg338:9:44
# text = “Clothe him in these my best buckskins,” said he, pointing to a bundle within the wigwam.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Clothe	clothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clothe** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | chieftain |  | my best buckskins |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | chieftain |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **point** | gerund | chieftain *not said here* |  | a bundle |  |  | within the wigwam | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bundle=Recipient |

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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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