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title: Tying all the four corners together in a knot, he threw the light bu… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Tying all the four corners together in a knot, he threw the light bundle of grass over his shoulder. 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 24

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Tying all the four corners together in a knot, he threw the light bundle of grass over his shoulder.

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**Who acts:** IKTOMI · **What happens:** tie, throw · **To what, where:** four corners, knot, light bundle, shoulder

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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:pg338:2:24
# text = Tying all the four corners together in a knot, he threw the light bundle of grass over his shoulder.
1	Tying	tie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | gerund | IKTOMI *not said here* | all four corners |  | a knot |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | past | IKTOMI | the light bundle of grass |  | IKTOMI's shoulder |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme over shoulder=Destination |

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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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