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title: From the tree Iktomi watched the hungry wolves eat up his nicely bro… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: From the tree Iktomi watched the hungry wolves eat up his nicely browned fat ducks. Who acts: Iktomi, hungry wolves. 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 139

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From the tree Iktomi watched the hungry wolves eat up his nicely browned fat ducks.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi, hungry wolves · **What happens:** watch, eat up, brown · **To what, where:** tree, browned fat ducks

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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, hungry wolves), 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:pg338:2:139
# text = From the tree Iktomi watched the hungry wolves eat up his nicely browned fat ducks.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	browned	brown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Iktomi |  |  | the tree |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat up** | present | the hungry wolves | IKTOMI's browned fat ducks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Patient |
| 3 | **brown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | nicely *property* | 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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