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title: Upon the arrival of the real avenger, Iktomi was released and chased… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon the arrival of the real avenger, Iktomi was released and chased away beyond the outer limits of the camp ground. Who acts: real avenger. 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 49

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Upon the arrival of the real avenger, Iktomi was released and chased away beyond the outer limits of the camp ground.

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**Who acts:** real avenger · **What happens:** release, chase away, arrive · **To what, where:** Iktomi, outer limits

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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 (real avenger), 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:pg338:9:49
# text = Upon the arrival of the real avenger, Iktomi was released and chased away beyond the outer limits of the camp ground.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | past · passive |  | Iktomi |  |  |  | upon the arrival of the real avenger | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **chase away** | participle |  |  |  | the outer limits of the camp ground |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond limit=Trajectory |
| 3 | **arrive** |  | the real avenger |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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