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title: It was a Skiska who peeped the least tiny blink at Iktomi within the… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a Skiska who peeped the least tiny blink at Iktomi within the center of the circle. Who acts: length, Skiska. 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 86

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It was a Skiska who peeped the least tiny blink at Iktomi within the center of the circle.

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**Who acts:** length, Skiska · **What happens:** be, peep · **To what, where:** Skiska, tiny blink

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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 (length, Skiska), 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:pg338:2:86
# text = It was a Skiska who peeped the least tiny blink at Iktomi within the center of the circle.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Skiska	Skiska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	blink	blink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | length | a Skiska |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **peep** | past | a Skiska | the tiny blink |  |  |  | within the center of the circle; at Iktomi | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent blink=Theme at iktomi=Stimulus |

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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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