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title: Quickly he bent green willow sticks, planting both ends of each pole… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Quickly he bent green willow sticks, planting both ends of each pole into the earth. 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 62

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Quickly he bent green willow sticks, planting both ends of each pole into the earth.

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**Who acts:** IKTOMI · **What happens:** bend, plant · **To what, where:** green willow sticks, ends, earth

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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:pg338:2:62
# text = Quickly he bent green willow sticks, planting both ends of each pole into the earth.
1	Quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	planting	plant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | past | IKTOMI | green willow sticks |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent stick=Material |
| 2 | **plant** | gerund | IKTOMI *not said here* | both ends of each pole |  | the earth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme into earth=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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