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title: Tenderly he lifted away the over-cloth, and there sat his sweet Moon… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tenderly he lifted away the over-cloth, and there sat his sweet Moon-wife, fairer than ever, and alive as before! Who acts: form. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 141

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Tenderly he lifted away the over-cloth, and there sat his sweet Moon-wife, fairer than ever, and alive as before!

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**Who acts:** form · **What happens:** lift away, sit · **To what, where:** over-cloth, sweet Moon wife

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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 (form), 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:pg77804:10:143
# text = Tenderly he lifted away the over-cloth, and there sat his sweet Moon-wife, fairer than ever, and alive as before!
1	Tenderly	tenderly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	over-cloth	over-cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift away** | past | form | the over-cloth |  |  |  | tenderly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent over-cloth=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | form *not said here* | form's sweet Moon wife |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=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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