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title: Stamping a moccasined foot as he drew on his buckskin leggins, he sa… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Stamping a moccasined foot as he drew on his buckskin leggins, he said: “Grandmother, beware of Iktomi! Who acts: MANSTIN, Grandmother. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 2

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Stamping a moccasined foot as he drew on his buckskin leggins, he said: “Grandmother, beware of Iktomi!

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**Who acts:** MANSTIN, Grandmother · **What happens:** stamp, draw, say, beware · **To what, where:** moccasined foot, buckskin leggins · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MANSTIN, Grandmother), 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:pg338:14:2
# text = Stamping a moccasined foot as he drew on his buckskin leggins, he said: “Grandmother, beware of Iktomi!
1	Stamping	stamp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	moccasined	moccasined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	buckskin	buckskin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	leggins	leggin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | gerund | MANSTIN *not said here* | a moccasined foot |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination |
| 2 | **draw** | past | MANSTIN |  |  | MANSTIN's buckskin leggins |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on leggin=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | MANSTIN |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beware** *in a quote* | infinitive | Grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Iktomi | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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