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title: Beside the door Iktomi stood smiling, as the ducks, eyeing his bundl… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Beside the door Iktomi stood smiling, as the ducks, eyeing his bundle of songs, strutted into the hut. 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 66

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Beside the door Iktomi stood smiling, as the ducks, eyeing his bundle of songs, strutted into the hut.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** stand, smile, eye, strut · **To what, where:** door, ducks, bundle, songs, hut

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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:pg338:2:66
# text = Beside the door Iktomi stood smiling, as the ducks, eyeing his bundle of songs, strutted into the hut.
1	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	eyeing	eye	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	strutted	strut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Iktomi |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside door=Location |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | the ducks |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Topic |
| 3 | **eye** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | IKTOMI's bundle of songs |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bundle=Stimulus |
| 4 | **strut** | participle |  | songs *not said here* |  | the hut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=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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