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title: From his heels were scattered a shower of red coals upon Iktomi's ba… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: From his heels were scattered a shower of red coals upon Iktomi's bare arms and shoulders. 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 55

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From his heels were scattered a shower of red coals upon Iktomi's bare arms and shoulders.

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**What happens:** scatter · **To what, where:** shower, heels

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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: 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:pg338:5:55
# text = From his heels were scattered a shower of red coals upon Iktomi's bare arms and shoulders.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | a shower of red coals |  | paw's heels |  | upon Iktomi's bare arms and shoulders | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: shower=Theme upon arm=Destination |

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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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