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title: Suddenly dropping the arrow and standing erect, Iktomi said aloud: “… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly dropping the arrow and standing erect, Iktomi said aloud: “Grow fast to the bark of the tree!” Who acts: Iktomi. 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 113

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Suddenly dropping the arrow and standing erect, Iktomi said aloud: “Grow fast to the bark of the tree!”

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**Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** drop, stand, say, grow · **To what, where:** arrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg338:8:113
# text = Suddenly dropping the arrow and standing erect, Iktomi said aloud: “Grow fast to the bark of the tree!”
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* | the arrow |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | Iktomi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | erect *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Iktomi |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the bark of the tree; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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