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title: It was dim in that straw hut, for Iktomi had not forgot to cover up… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was dim in that straw hut, for Iktomi had not forgot to cover up the small entrance way. Who acts: circle, 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 69

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It was dim in that straw hut, for Iktomi had not forgot to cover up the small entrance way.

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**Who acts:** circle, Iktomi · **What happens:** be, have, not forget, cover up · **To what, where:** straw hut, small entrance way

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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 (circle, 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:pg338:2:69
# text = It was dim in that straw hut, for Iktomi had not forgot to cover up the small entrance way.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | circle |  |  | that straw hut |  | dim *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | past | Iktomi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover up** | to-infinitive | Iktomi *not said here* | the small entrance way |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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