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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 18

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We are huddled around the fireplace in the corner of the big, pleasant room, against whose dark rafters and farther white walls the shadows dance and waver.

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**What happens:** huddle · **To what, where:** We, fireplace

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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 Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77804:15:18
# text = We are huddled around the fireplace in the corner of the big, pleasant room, against whose dark rafters and farther white walls the shadows dance and waver.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	huddled	huddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rafters	rafter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	waver	waver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **huddle** | present · passive |  | We |  | the fireplace |  | in the corner of the big pleasant room; dark rafters and farther white walls *conj* | tree rules |

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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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