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title: THE huntsman Patkasa (turtle) stood bent over a newly slain deer. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: THE huntsman Patkasa (turtle) stood bent over a newly slain deer. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 1

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THE huntsman Patkasa (turtle) stood bent over a newly slain deer.

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**What happens:** bend · **To what, where:** huntsman, slain deer

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. 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.

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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:pg338:10:1
# text = THE huntsman Patkasa (turtle) stood bent over a newly slain deer.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Patkasa	Patkasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | past · passive |  | the huntsman |  | a slain deer |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme over deer=Location |

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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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