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title: THE Horned Toad is also a famous musician--a sort of Pueblo Orpheus,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: THE Horned Toad is also a famous musician--a sort of Pueblo Orpheus, whose song charms the very stones and trees. Who acts: Horned Toad, song. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Stone-moving Song, with its dependency tre
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 1

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THE Horned Toad is also a famous musician--a sort of Pueblo Orpheus, whose song charms the very stones and trees.

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**Who acts:** Horned Toad, song · **What happens:** be, charm, sort · **To what, where:** famous musician, stones, Pueblo

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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 Stone-moving Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horned Toad, song), 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:pg77804:13:1
# text = THE Horned Toad is also a famous musician--a sort of Pueblo Orpheus, whose song charms the very stones and trees.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	charms	charm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Horned Toad | a famous musician and a sort of Pueblo |  |  |  | a sort of Pueblo *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **charm** | present | song | the stones and trees |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stone=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | Pueblo |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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