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title: There again in the midst of the large camp ground was a man in beade… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There again in the midst of the large camp ground was a man in beaded buckskins. Who acts: midst. 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 51

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There again in the midst of the large camp ground was a man in beaded buckskins.

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**Who acts:** midst · **What happens:** be, bead · **To what, where:** man, beaded buckskins

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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 (midst), 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:pg338:9:51
# text = There again in the midst of the large camp ground was a man in beaded buckskins.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	beaded	bead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the midst of the large camp ground | a man |  | beaded buckskins |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bead** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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