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title: _” I started up so hastily as to bump my head against the whitewashe… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _” I started up so hastily as to bump my head against the whitewashed wall. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 2

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\_” I started up so hastily as to bump my head against the whitewashed wall.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** start up, bump, whitewash · **To what, where:** head

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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: who acts (I), 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:pg77804:15:2
# text = _” I started up so hastily as to bump my head against the whitewashed wall.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hastily	hastily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bump	bump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whitewashed	whitewash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start up** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bump** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my head |  |  |  | against the whitewashed wall | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against wall=Patient |
| 3 | **whitewash** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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