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title: To and fro hurried the women, handsome in their gala-day dress. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: To and fro hurried the women, handsome in their gala-day dress. Who acts: women. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 32

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To and fro hurried the women, handsome in their gala-day dress.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** hurry

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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:pg338:1077`): 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:pg338:13:32
# text = To and fro hurried the women, handsome in their gala-day dress.
1	To	to	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	fro	fro	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gala	gala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | past | the women |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:** 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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