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title: My old self!” cried Iktomi, pinching himself and plucking imaginary… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: My old self!” cried Iktomi, pinching himself and plucking imaginary pieces out of his jacket. Who acts: old self. 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 103

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My old self!” cried Iktomi, pinching himself and plucking imaginary pieces out of his jacket.

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**Who acts:** old self · **What happens:** cry, pinch, pluck · **To what, where:** self, imaginary pieces, jacket

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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 (old self), 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:pg338:6:103
# text = My old self!” cried Iktomi, pinching himself and plucking imaginary pieces out of his jacket.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pinching	pinch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
13	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | My old self |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pinch** *in a quote* | gerund | My old self *not said here* | self |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **pluck** *in a quote* | gerund | My old self *not said here* | imaginary pieces |  | self's jacket |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Theme out jacket=Source |

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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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