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title: The blue, blue sky dropped low over the edge of the green level land. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The blue, blue sky dropped low over the edge of the green level land. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 2

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The blue, blue sky dropped low over the edge of the green level land.

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**What happens:** drop · **To what, where:** blue blue sky, edge

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg338:8:2
# text = The blue, blue sky dropped low over the edge of the green level land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | participle |  | the blue blue sky *not said here* |  | the edge of the green level land |  | low *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over edge=Trajectory |

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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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