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title: Let us see who can jump over the deer without touching a hair on his… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us see who can jump over the deer without touching a hair on his hide,” suggested Iktomi. Who acts: you, us. 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 17

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Let us see who can jump over the deer without touching a hair on his hide,” suggested Iktomi.

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, see, jump, touch, suggest · **To what, where:** us, deer, hair, Iktomi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (you, us), 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:pg338:10:17
# text = Let us see who can jump over the deer without touching a hair on his hide,” suggested Iktomi.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
19	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
20	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **jump** | can |  |  |  | the deer |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over deer=Trajectory |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund |  | a hair |  |  |  | on friend's hide | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Experiencer on hide=Theme |
| 5 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | Iktomi |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent iktomi=Topic |

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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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