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title: Now Iktomi returned to the coyote who had been looking on through hi… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Iktomi returned to the coyote who had been looking on through his eyelashes. Who acts: Iktomi, coyote. 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 48

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Now Iktomi returned to the coyote who had been looking on through his eyelashes.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi, coyote · **What happens:** return, look on

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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, coyote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg338:337`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:5:48
# text = Now Iktomi returned to the coyote who had been looking on through his eyelashes.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  | now | to the coyote *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to coyote=Result |
| 2 | **look on** | past · perfect · progressive | the coyote |  |  |  |  | through Iktomi's eyelashes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through eyelash=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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