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title: The Iktomi children hurried away from the creek, crying and calling… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Iktomi children hurried away from the creek, crying and calling for their water-dead father. Who acts: Iktomi children. 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 77

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The Iktomi children hurried away from the creek, crying and calling for their water-dead father.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi children · **What happens:** hurry away, cry, call · **To what, where:** creek · **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 (Iktomi children), 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:pg338:10:77
# text = The Iktomi children hurried away from the creek, crying and calling for their water-dead father.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry away** | past | the Iktomi children |  |  | the creek |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from creek=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the Iktomi children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | the Iktomi children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for children's dead father | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for father=Recipient |

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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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