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title: Show us what is in your blanket!” cried out other voices. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Show us what is in your blanket!” cried out other voices. Who acts: you. 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 46

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Show us what is in your blanket!” cried out other voices.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** show, be, cry out · **To what, where:** us, blanket, other voices · **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 (you), 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:pg338:2:46
# text = Show us what is in your blanket!” cried out other voices.
1	Show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | your blanket |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | other voices |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |

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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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