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title: “Nothing,” he answered, “except that when I was half-way down I saw… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nothing,” he answered, “except that when I was half-way down I saw in the middle of yon cottonwood forest a little mound covered with all the beautiful flowers in the world.” Who acts: Eagle, that. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletche
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 126

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“Nothing,” he answered, “except that when I was half-way down I saw in the middle of yon cottonwood forest a little mound covered with all the beautiful flowers in the world.”

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**Who acts:** Eagle, that · **What happens:** answer, be, see, cover · **To what, where:** Nothing, way, middle, little mound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, that), 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:pg77804:10:127
# text = “Nothing,” he answered, “except that when I was half-way down I saw in the middle of yon cottonwood forest a little mound covered with all the beautiful flowers in the world.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	cottonwood	cottonwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Eagle | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | that | way |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; down, half *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Eagle | way *not said here* |  | the middle of yon cottonwood forest |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cover** *in a quote* | participle |  | a little mound *not said here* |  |  |  | with all beautiful flowers in the world | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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:** «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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