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title: He moved his outspread wings one, two, three times and lo! the eagle… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He moved his outspread wings one, two, three times and lo! the eagle tumbled from the great height and fell heavily to the earth. Who acts: bird. 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 58

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He moved his outspread wings one, two, three times and lo! the eagle tumbled from the great height and fell heavily to the earth.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** move, tumble, fall · **To what, where:** outspread wings, eagle, great height

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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 (bird), 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:pg338:9:58
# text = He moved his outspread wings one, two, three times and lo! the eagle tumbled from the great height and fell heavily to the earth.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	outspread	outspread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | bird | bird's outspread wings and three times |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 2 | **tumble** | participle |  | the eagle *not said here* |  | the great height |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from height=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fall** | past | bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the earth; heavily *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme |

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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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