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title: “This is the answer from the red western sky!” cried Iktomi with han… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “This is the answer from the red western sky!” cried Iktomi with hands uplifted. Who acts: This, answer. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 31

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“This is the answer from the red western sky!” cried Iktomi with hands uplifted.

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**Who acts:** This, answer · **What happens:** be, cry, uplift · **To what, where:** answer, red western sky, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, answer), 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:pg338:3:31
# text = “This is the answer from the red western sky!” cried Iktomi with hands uplifted.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	uplifted	uplift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the answer |  | the red western sky |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the answer |  |  |  |  | with hands | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hand=Theme |
| 3 | **uplift** | participle |  | hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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