--- title: IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS IKTOMI'S BLANKET IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT IKTOMI… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics description: IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS IKTOMI'S BLANKET IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE IKTOMI AND THE FAWN THE BADGER AND THE BEAR THE TREE-BOUND SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE IKTOMI AND THE TURTLE DANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULL THE TOAD AND THE BOY IYA, THE CAMP-EATER MANSTIN, THE RABBIT THE WARLIKE SEVEN A sent --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/1/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/1/) / 4 # Old Indian Legends, Old Indian Legends, sentence 4 IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS IKTOMI'S BLANKET IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE IKTOMI AND THE FAWN THE BADGER AND THE BEAR THE TREE-BOUND SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE IKTOMI AND THE TURTLE DANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULL THE TOAD AND THE BOY IYA, THE CAMP-EATER MANSTIN, THE RABBIT THE WARLIKE SEVEN **What happens:** shoot · **To what, where:** RED EAGLE IKTOMI, BUFFALO SKULL This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Old Indian Legends. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg338:1:4 # text = IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS IKTOMI'S BLANKET IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE IKTOMI AND THE FAWN THE BADGER AND THE BEAR THE TREE-BOUND SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE IKTOMI AND THE TURTLE DANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULL THE TOAD AND THE BOY IYA, THE CAMP-EATER MANSTIN, THE RABBIT THE WARLIKE SEVEN 1 IKTOMI IKTOMI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 AND and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 3 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 DUCKS duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 IKTOMI IKTOMI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 'S 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 BLANKET blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 IKTOMI IKTOMI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 9 AND and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 MUSKRAT muskrat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 IKTOMI IKTOMI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 13 AND and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 COYOTE coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 16 IKTOMI IKTOMI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 17 AND and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 FAWN fawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 BADGER BADGER PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 22 AND and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 BEAR bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 25 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 TREE TREE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 BOUND bound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 SHOOTING shooting NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 30 OF of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 RED RED PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 33 EAGLE EAGLE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 IKTOMI IKTOMI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 AND and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 TURTLE TURTLE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 DANCE DANCE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 IN in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 BUFFALO BUFFALO PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 SKULL SKULL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 43 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 TOAD toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 45 AND and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 BOY BOY PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 48 IYA IYA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 51 CAMP camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 52 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 EATER eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 54 MANSTIN MANSTIN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 RABBIT rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ _ 58 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 WARLIKE WARLIKE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 60 SEVEN seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 59 flat _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot** | | | the RED EAGLE IKTOMI and the TURTLE DANCE | | a BUFFALO SKULL | | | nom shooting «act transitive»: of=patient in=place | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/1/3/) - next →: [Iktomi and the Ducks, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/2/1/) - ↑ back to [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/1/)