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title: There among them stood Iktomi in brown buckskins, and the strange ta… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There among them stood Iktomi in brown buckskins, and the strange talking arrow was gone. Who acts: nostrils, strange talking arrow. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 100

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There among them stood Iktomi in brown buckskins, and the strange talking arrow was gone.

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**Who acts:** nostrils, strange talking arrow · **What happens:** stand, be · **To what, where:** Iktomi, brown buckskins

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nostrils, strange talking arrow), 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:pg338:6:100
# text = There among them stood Iktomi in brown buckskins, and the strange talking arrow was gone.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | nostrils *= nostril* | Iktomi |  | brown buckskins; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent iktomi=Theme in buckskin=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the strange talking arrow |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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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