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title: For a moment Iktomi stood with a hand on his long protruding chin. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: For a moment Iktomi stood with a hand on his long protruding chin. 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 32

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For a moment Iktomi stood with a hand on his long protruding chin.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** stand, protrude · **To what, where:** long protruding chin

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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:pg338:4:32
# text = For a moment Iktomi stood with a hand on his long protruding chin.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	protruding	protrude	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Iktomi |  |  | Iktomi's long protruding chin | moment | with a hand | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chin=Location |
| 2 | **protrude** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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