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title: I can jump as well as you!” went on Iktomi. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: I can jump as well as you!” went on Iktomi. Who acts: I, herd. 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 97

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I can jump as well as you!” went on Iktomi.

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**Who acts:** I, herd · **What happens:** jump, go · **To what, where:** Iktomi

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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 (I, herd), 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:pg338:6:97
# text = I can jump as well as you!” went on Iktomi.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | can | I |  |  |  |  | as you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | herd *not said here* |  |  | Iktomi |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on iktomi=Location |

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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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