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title: Iktomi in his fringed buckskins walked alone across the prairie with… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Iktomi in his fringed buckskins walked alone across the prairie with a black bare head glossy in the sunlight. Who acts: Iktomi. 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 3

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Iktomi in his fringed buckskins walked alone across the prairie with a black bare head glossy in the sunlight.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** fringe, walk · **To what, where:** prairie

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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), 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:pg338:5:3
# text = Iktomi in his fringed buckskins walked alone across the prairie with a black bare head glossy in the sunlight.
1	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fringe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Iktomi in Iktomi's fringed buckskins |  |  | the prairie with a black bare head |  | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across prairie=Trajectory |

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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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