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title: A sleek gray-faced prairie wolf! his pointed black nose tucked in be… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A sleek gray-faced prairie wolf! his pointed black nose tucked in between his four feet drawn snugly together; his handsome bushy tail wound over his nose and feet; a coyote fast asleep in the shadow of a bunch of grass!--this is what Iktomi spied. Who acts: sleek faced prairie wolf, Iktomi. A sente
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 11

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A sleek gray-faced prairie wolf! his pointed black nose tucked in between his four feet drawn snugly together; his handsome bushy tail wound over his nose and feet; a coyote fast asleep in the shadow of a bunch of grass!--this is what Iktomi spied.

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**Who acts:** sleek faced prairie wolf, Iktomi · **What happens:** tuck, draw, be, spy, wound, shadow · **To what, where:** pointed black nose, four feet, nose, bunch

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleek faced prairie wolf, 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:pg338:5:11
# text = A sleek gray-faced prairie wolf! his pointed black nose tucked in between his four feet drawn snugly together; his handsome bushy tail wound over his nose and feet; a coyote fast asleep in the shadow of a bunch of grass!--this is what Iktomi spied.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	snugly	snugly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
51	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | participle |  | Iktomi's pointed black nose *not said here* |  | Iktomi's four feet |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in foot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | Iktomi's four feet *not said here* |  |  |  | snugly, together *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a sleek faced prairie wolf and Iktomi's pointed black nose and Iktomi's handsome bushy tail wound over Iktomi's nose and feet |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spy** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **wound** |  | Iktomi |  |  | Iktomi's nose and feet |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent over=place |
| 6 | **shadow** |  |  | a bunch of grass |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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