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title: Then off he ran so swiftly that his long bushy tail hung out in a st… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then off he ran so swiftly that his long bushy tail hung out in a straight line with his back. Who acts: Iktomi, long bushy tail. 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 65

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Then off he ran so swiftly that his long bushy tail hung out in a straight line with his back.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi, long bushy tail · **What happens:** run, hang out · **To what, where:** straight line

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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, long bushy tail), 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:pg338:5:65
# text = Then off he ran so swiftly that his long bushy tail hung out in a straight line with his back.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Iktomi |  |  |  | then | swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hang out** | participle | Iktomi's long bushy tail |  |  | a straight line with Iktomi's back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in line=Location |

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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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