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title: In the meanwhile strong men seized Iktomi and dragged him by his lon… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meanwhile strong men seized Iktomi and dragged him by his long hair to the hilltop. Who acts: strong men. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 45

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In the meanwhile strong men seized Iktomi and dragged him by his long hair to the hilltop.

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**Who acts:** strong men · **What happens:** seize, drag · **To what, where:** Iktomi, meanwhile, hilltop

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg338:831`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:9:45
# text = In the meanwhile strong men seized Iktomi and dragged him by his long hair to the hilltop.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | strong men | Iktomi |  | the meanwhile |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iktomi=Theme |
| 2 | **drag** | past | strong men *not said here* | Iktomi |  | the hilltop |  | by chieftain's long hair | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hilltop=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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