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title: Tucking it in a beaded case hanging from his belt, Iktomi stood erec… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Tucking it in a beaded case hanging from his belt, Iktomi stood erect, looking about. Who acts: Iktomi, beaded case. 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 39

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Tucking it in a beaded case hanging from his belt, Iktomi stood erect, looking about.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi, beaded case · **What happens:** tuck, bead, hang, stand, look · **To what, where:** knife, beaded case, belt

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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, beaded case), 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:pg338:3:39
# text = Tucking it in a beaded case hanging from his belt, Iktomi stood erect, looking about.
1	Tucking	tuck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beaded	bead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	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 | **tuck** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | knife |  | a beaded case |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in case=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bead** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund | a beaded case *not said here* |  |  | Iktomi's belt |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  |  | erect *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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