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title: Now Iktomi stood beside it, looking at the closed eyelids that did n… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Iktomi stood beside it, looking at the closed eyelids that did not quiver the least bit. Who acts: Iktomi, closed eyelids. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 15

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Now Iktomi stood beside it, looking at the closed eyelids that did not quiver the least bit.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi, closed eyelids · **What happens:** stand, look, close, not quiver · **To what, where:** ball, least bit

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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 (Iktomi, closed eyelids), 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:pg338:5:15
# text = Now Iktomi stood beside it, looking at the closed eyelids that did not quiver the least bit.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	quiver	quiver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Iktomi |  |  | ball | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the closed eyelids | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eyelid=Theme |
| 3 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **quiver** | past · do-support | the closed eyelids | the least bit |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bit=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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