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title: Up and up, till the hot sun began to singe his head, and not even th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Up and up, till the hot sun began to singe his head, and not even the Eagle had ever been so high. Who acts: Eagle. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 121

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Up and up, till the hot sun began to singe his head, and not even the Eagle had ever been so high.

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**Who acts:** Eagle · **What happens:** begin, singe, not be · **To what, where:** head

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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 tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:10:122
# text = Up and up, till the hot sun began to singe his head, and not even the Eagle had ever been so high.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	singe	singe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  | till the hot sun |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **singe** | to-infinitive |  | buzzard's head |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | the Eagle |  |  |  | ever | high *property* | tree rules |

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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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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