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title: Won't you mark my face with brown, brown spots just like yours?” ask… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Won't you mark my face with brown, brown spots just like yours?” asked Iktomi, always eager to be like other people. Who acts: you. 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 131

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Won't you mark my face with brown, brown spots just like yours?” asked Iktomi, always eager to be like other people.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not mark, ask, be · **To what, where:** face, Iktomi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you), 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:pg338:6:131
# text = Won't you mark my face with brown, brown spots just like yours?” asked Iktomi, always eager to be like other people.
1	Wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mark** | future | you | my face |  |  |  | with brown brown spots; like yours | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with spot=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past |  |  | Iktomi |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent iktomi=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like other people | 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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