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title: Little cubs played under the high-hanging new meats. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Little cubs played under the high-hanging new meats. Who acts: Little cubs. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 93

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Little cubs played under the high-hanging new meats.

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**Who acts:** Little cubs · **What happens:** play, hang · **To what, where:** hanging new meats

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little cubs), 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:pg338:574`): 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:pg338:7:93
# text = Little cubs played under the high-hanging new meats.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Little cubs |  |  | the hanging new meats |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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