--- title: “Yes! yes!” shouted Iktomi, jumping up and down, patting his lips wi… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics description: “Yes! yes!” shouted Iktomi, jumping up and down, patting his lips with his palm, which caused his voice to vibrate in a peculiar fashion. Who acts: Iktomi, palm, voice. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/) / [Iktomi and the Fawn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/) / 13 # Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 13 “Yes! yes!” shouted Iktomi, jumping up and down, patting his lips with his palm, which caused his voice to vibrate in a peculiar fashion. **Who acts:** Iktomi, palm, voice · **What happens:** shout, jump up, pat, cause, vibrate · **To what, where:** lips, voice, peculiar fashion 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 (Iktomi, palm, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg338:6:13 # text = “Yes! yes!” shouted Iktomi, jumping up and down, patting his lips with his palm, which caused his voice to vibrate in a peculiar fashion. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Iktomi Iktomi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 jumping jump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 11 up up ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 patting pat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 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 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 vibrate vibrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 peculiar peculiar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Iktomi | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **jump up** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pat** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | Iktomi's lips | | | | with Iktomi's palm | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lip=Experiencer with palm=Instrument | | 4 | **cause** | past | Iktomi's palm | Iktomi's voice | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **vibrate** | to-infinitive | Iktomi's voice *not said here* | | | a peculiar fashion | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fashion=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/14/) - ↑ back to [Iktomi and the Fawn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/)