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title: When this strange news came rolling down the still evening air, ther… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When this strange news came rolling down the still evening air, there was a great scampering of little moccasined feet. Who acts: strange news, great scampering. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moo
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 25

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When this strange news came rolling down the still evening air, there was a great scampering of little moccasined feet.

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**Who acts:** strange news, great scampering · **What happens:** come, roll down, be · **To what, where:** evening air

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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 (strange news, great scampering), 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:pg77804:10:25
# text = When this strange news came rolling down the still evening air, there was a great scampering of little moccasined feet.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	scampering	scampering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	moccasined	moccasined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | this strange news |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll down** | gerund | this strange news *not said here* | the evening air |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | a great scampering of little moccasined feet |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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