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title: In the morning when they awoke, Mulimo the Great Spirit was standing… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning when they awoke, Mulimo the Great Spirit was standing by them; and he said: 'O Makoma and Sakatirina! Who acts: strength, Mulimo. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 36

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In the morning when they awoke, Mulimo the Great Spirit was standing by them; and he said: 'O Makoma and Sakatirina!

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**Who acts:** strength, Mulimo · **What happens:** awake, stand, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, Mulimo), 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:pg3027:2:36
# text = In the morning when they awoke, Mulimo the Great Spirit was standing by them; and he said: 'O Makoma and Sakatirina!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Mulimo	Mulimo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	23	case	_	_
23	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | strength |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | Mulimo |  |  |  |  | by strength | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mulimo |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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