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title: Slipping a long thin blade from out his belt, he cut large chunks of… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Slipping a long thin blade from out his belt, he cut large chunks of choice meat. Who acts: Iktomi. 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 32

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Slipping a long thin blade from out his belt, he cut large chunks of choice meat.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** slip out, cut · **To what, where:** long thin blade, large chunks

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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 (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:pg338:3:32
# text = Slipping a long thin blade from out his belt, he cut large chunks of choice meat.
1	Slipping	slip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chunks	chunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip out** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | a long thin blade |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent blade=Destination belt=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | Iktomi | large chunks of choice meat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chunk=Product |

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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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