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title: If you will jump into the pit, I'll cover you with sweet smelling gr… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will jump into the pit, I'll cover you with sweet smelling grass and cedar wood,” answered the fawn. Who acts: you, I. 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 134

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If you will jump into the pit, I'll cover you with sweet smelling grass and cedar wood,” answered the fawn.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** jump, cover, answer · **To what, where:** pit, you, fawn

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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, I), 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:pg338:6:134
# text = If you will jump into the pit, I'll cover you with sweet smelling grass and cedar wood,” answered the fawn.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	smelling	smelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
22	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  |  |  |  | into the pit *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pit=Result |
| 2 | **cover** | future | I |  | you |  |  | with sweet smelling grass and cedar wood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Destination with grass=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the fawn |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fawn=Eventuality |

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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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