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title: Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders. Who acts: round braid. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 4

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Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders.

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**Who acts:** round braid · **What happens:** hang, fall · **To what, where:** small brown ear, shoulders

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (round braid), 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:pg338:2:4
# text = Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	braid	braid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | present | each round braid |  |  | a small brown ear |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over ear=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | present | each round braid *not said here* |  |  | braid's shoulders |  | forward *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over shoulder=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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