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title: Placing one under each roasting duck, he muttered, “The sweet fat oo… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Placing one under each roasting duck, he muttered, “The sweet fat oozing out will taste well with the hard-cooked breasts.” Who acts: IKTOMI, sweet fat. 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 106

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Placing one under each roasting duck, he muttered, “The sweet fat oozing out will taste well with the hard-cooked breasts.”

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**Who acts:** IKTOMI, sweet fat · **What happens:** place, roast, mutter, ooze out, taste, cook · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, sweet fat), 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:pg338:2:106
# text = Placing one under each roasting duck, he muttered, “The sweet fat oozing out will taste well with the hard-cooked breasts.”
1	Placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	oozing	ooze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | gerund | IKTOMI *not said here* | one |  |  |  | under each roasting duck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme under duck=Destination |
| 2 | **roast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | IKTOMI |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **ooze out** *in a quote* | gerund | the sweet fat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 5 | **taste** *in a quote* | future | the sweet fat |  |  |  |  | with the cooked breasts; well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **cook** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: 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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