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title: Lifting him to his feet, he said: “Now it is my turn to try the high… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Lifting him to his feet, he said: “Now it is my turn to try the high jump!” Who acts: Patkasa, disappointment. 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 33

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Lifting him to his feet, he said: “Now it is my turn to try the high jump!”

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**Who acts:** Patkasa, disappointment · **What happens:** lift, say, be, try · **To what, where:** Patkasa, feet, turn, high jump · **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 (Patkasa, disappointment), 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:pg338:10:33
# text = Lifting him to his feet, he said: “Now it is my turn to try the high jump!”
1	Lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | gerund | Patkasa *not said here* | Patkasa |  | Patkasa's feet |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to foot=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Patkasa |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | disappointment | my turn |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Patkasa *not said here* | the high jump |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Eventuality |

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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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