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title: Again stooping over the arrow Iktomi continued his repetition of cha… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Again stooping over the arrow Iktomi continued his repetition of charm words. Who acts: Iktomi, charm words. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 110

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Again stooping over the arrow Iktomi continued his repetition of charm words.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi, charm words · **What happens:** stoop, continue, repeat · **To what, where:** arrow, repetition

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi, charm words), 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:pg338:8:110
# text = Again stooping over the arrow Iktomi continued his repetition of charm words.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* |  |  | the arrow | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over arrow=Location |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Iktomi | Iktomi's repetition of charm words |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent repetition=Theme |
| 3 | **repeat** |  | charm words |  |  |  |  |  | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=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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