--- title: “My friend, let us run a race to see who shall win this pot of fish. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics description: “My friend, let us run a race to see who shall win this pot of fish. Who acts: friend, us. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/4/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/) / [Iktomi and the Muskrat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/4/) / 25 # Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 25 “My friend, let us run a race to see who shall win this pot of fish. **Who acts:** friend, us · **What happens:** let, run, see, win · **To what, where:** us, race, pot · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg338:4:25 # text = “My friend, let us run a race to see who shall win this pot of fish. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | My friend | us | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | a race | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **win** *in a quote* | shall | | this pot of fish | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/4/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/4/26/) - ↑ back to [Iktomi and the Muskrat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/4/)