---
title: He paints his round cheeks with bright red, and wears the penciled l… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He paints his round cheeks with bright red, and wears the penciled lines of red over his temples like our men of honored rank. Who acts: level. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/8/62/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/) / [The Tree-bound](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/8/) / 62

# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 62

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He paints his round cheeks with bright red, and wears the penciled lines of red over his temples like our men of honored rank.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** level · **What happens:** paint, wear, pencil, honor · **To what, where:** round cheeks, penciled lines, temples

<!-- .vabout -->
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: who acts (level), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg338:8:62
# text = He paints his round cheeks with bright red, and wears the penciled lines of red over his temples like our men of honored rank.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paints	paint	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	penciled	pencil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | present | level | level's round cheeks |  |  |  | with bright red | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent cheek=Destination with red=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | present | level *not said here* | the penciled lines of red |  | level's temples like our men of honored rank |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent line=Source |
| 3 | **pencil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/8/61/)
- next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/8/63/)
- ↑ back to [The Tree-bound](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/8/)