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title: Just before the run and leap Iktomi put in: “Let the winner have the… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Just before the run and leap Iktomi put in: “Let the winner have the deer to eat!” Who acts: run, Iktomi, winner. 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 25

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Just before the run and leap Iktomi put in: “Let the winner have the deer to eat!”

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**Who acts:** run, Iktomi, winner · **What happens:** leap, put in, let, have, eat · **To what, where:** deer · **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 (run, Iktomi, winner), 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:pg338:10:25
# text = Just before the run and leap Iktomi put in: “Let the winner have the deer to eat!”
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | infinitive | the run |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put in** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the winner | the deer |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Patient |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the winner *not said here* | the deer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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