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title: The young Iktomis stretched their necks and rolled their round black… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The young Iktomis stretched their necks and rolled their round black eyes like newly hatched birds. Who acts: young Iktomis. 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 56

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The young Iktomis stretched their necks and rolled their round black eyes like newly hatched birds.

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**Who acts:** young Iktomis · **What happens:** stretch, roll, hatch · **To what, where:** necks, round black eyes

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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 (young Iktomis), 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:pg338:10:56
# text = The young Iktomis stretched their necks and rolled their round black eyes like newly hatched birds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Iktomis	Iktomis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | the young Iktomis | faces's necks |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | past | the young Iktomis *not said here* | necks's round black eyes |  |  |  | like hatched birds | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent |
| 3 | **hatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |

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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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