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title: Disappearing within his teepee, he came out again with some huge sea… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Disappearing within his teepee, he came out again with some huge seashells. Who acts: IKTOMI. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 104

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Disappearing within his teepee, he came out again with some huge seashells.

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**Who acts:** IKTOMI · **What happens:** disappear, come out

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IKTOMI), 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:pg338:2:104
# text = Disappearing within his teepee, he came out again with some huge seashells.
1	Disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	seashells	seashell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | gerund | IKTOMI *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within IKTOMI's teepee | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | past | IKTOMI |  |  |  | again | with some huge seashells; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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