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title: With ankles crossed together around a pot of soup, Iktomi bent over… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With ankles crossed together around a pot of soup, Iktomi bent over some delicious boiled fish. Who acts: Iktomi. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 3

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With ankles crossed together around a pot of soup, Iktomi bent over some delicious boiled fish.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** cross, bend, boil · **To what, where:** ankles, pot

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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 (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:pg338:4:3
# text = With ankles crossed together around a pot of soup, Iktomi bent over some delicious boiled fish.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
3	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
15	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	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 | **cross** | participle |  | ankles *not said here* |  | a pot of soup |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around pot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bend** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  |  | with ankles; over delicious boiled fish | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fish=Location |
| 3 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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