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title: Taking hold of the paw with the bird feather fast on it, he exclaime… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking hold of the paw with the bird feather fast on it, he exclaimed, “Why, he is still warm! Who acts: paw. 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 22

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Taking hold of the paw with the bird feather fast on it, he exclaimed, “Why, he is still warm!

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**Who acts:** paw · **What happens:** take, exclaim, be, hold · **To what, where:** hold, feather, paw · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (paw), 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:pg338:5:22
# text = Taking hold of the paw with the bird feather fast on it, he exclaimed, “Why, he is still warm!
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | paw *not said here* | hold of the paw |  | feather |  | with the bird feather; fast *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on it=Destination |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | paw |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | paw |  |  |  | still | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | the paw |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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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