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title: Possessed by an irrepressible impulse the Iktomi peacock called out,… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Possessed by an irrepressible impulse the Iktomi peacock called out, “He! 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 51

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Possessed by an irrepressible impulse the Iktomi peacock called out, “He!

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**What happens:** possess, call out · **To what, where:** Iktomi peacock

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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: 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:pg338:6:51
# text = Possessed by an irrepressible impulse the Iktomi peacock called out, “He!
1	Possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	irrepressible	irrepressible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	impulse	impulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a irrepressible impulse | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the Iktomi peacock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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