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description: By this time a long file of girls was coming to Nah-chu-rú-chu’s house, outside whose door hung the pearl _omate_. Who acts: long file, door. 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 dependen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 38

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By this time a long file of girls was coming to Nah-chu-rú-chu’s house, outside whose door hung the pearl \_omate\_.

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**Who acts:** long file, door · **What happens:** come, hang, file · **To what, where:** rú chu house, pearl, girls

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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 (long file, door), 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:pg77804:10:38
# text = By this time a long file of girls was coming to Nah-chu-rú-chu’s house, outside whose door hung the pearl _omate_.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	file	file	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
12	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	omate	omate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · progressive | a long file of girls |  |  | rú chu house | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hang** | past | door | the pearl |  |  |  | omate, outside *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Patient |
| 3 | **file** |  |  | girls |  |  |  |  | nom file «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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