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title: Very early the oval-shaped door-flaps were thrust aside and many bro… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Very early the oval-shaped door-flaps were thrust aside and many brown faces peered out of the wigwams toward the top of the highest bluff. Who acts: oval shaped door flaps, many brown faces. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle, with its dependency tree and th
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# Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 26

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Very early the oval-shaped door-flaps were thrust aside and many brown faces peered out of the wigwams toward the top of the highest bluff.

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**Who acts:** oval shaped door flaps, many brown faces · **What happens:** be, peer · **To what, where:** thrust

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oval shaped door flaps, many brown faces), 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:pg338:9:26
# text = Very early the oval-shaped door-flaps were thrust aside and many brown faces peered out of the wigwams toward the top of the highest bluff.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	oval	oval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	shaped	shaped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	flaps	flap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
12	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	peered	peer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	bluff	bluff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the oval shaped door flaps | thrust |  |  |  | early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **peer** | past | many brown faces |  |  |  |  | toward the top of the highest bluff; out the wigwams; aside *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out wigwam=Theme |

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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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