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title: Here and there over the rolling green were tall bunches of coarse gr… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there over the rolling green were tall bunches of coarse gray weeds. Who acts: rolling green. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 2

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Here and there over the rolling green were tall bunches of coarse gray weeds.

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**Who acts:** rolling green · **What happens:** roll, be · **To what, where:** tall bunches

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rolling green), 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:pg338:5:2
# text = Here and there over the rolling green were tall bunches of coarse gray weeds.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bunches	bunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the rolling green |  |  | tall bunches |  | of coarse gray weeds | tree rules |

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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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