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title: He blinked his eyes hard to keep out the salty perspiration streamin… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He blinked his eyes hard to keep out the salty perspiration streaming down his face. Who acts: Iktomi, salty perspiration. 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 27

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He blinked his eyes hard to keep out the salty perspiration streaming down his face.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi, salty perspiration · **What happens:** blink, keep out, stream down · **To what, where:** eyes, salty perspiration, face

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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, salty perspiration), 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:pg338:5:27
# text = He blinked his eyes hard to keep out the salty perspiration streaming down his face.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blinked	blink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blink** | past | Iktomi | Iktomi's eyes |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **keep out** | to-infinitive | Iktomi *not said here* | the salty perspiration |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perspiration=Theme |
| 3 | **stream down** | gerund | the salty perspiration *not said here* | Iktomi's face |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=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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