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title: Hair is usually worn in a bun, held by three large gold combs that h… — Panama · tree and pragmatics
description: Hair is usually worn in a bun, held by three large gold combs that have pearls (tembleques) worn like a crown. Who acts: three large gold combs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Panama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Panama, sentence 452

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From Wikipedia, [«Panama»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Hair is usually worn in a bun, held by three large gold combs that have pearls (tembleques) worn like a crown.

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**Who acts:** three large gold combs · **What happens:** wear, hold, have · **To what, where:** Hair, bun, pearls

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three large gold combs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Panama:452
# text = Hair is usually worn in a bun, held by three large gold combs that have pearls (tembleques) worn like a crown.
1	Hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	combs	comb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tembleques	tembleque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present · passive |  | Hair |  | a bun |  | usually *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by three large gold combs | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by comb=Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | three large gold combs | pearls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Patient |
| 4 | **wear** | participle |  | pearls *not said here* |  |  |  | like a crown | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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:** the English Wikipedia, «Panama», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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