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title: For scores of miles their dazzling sheen is visible--a strange patch… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For scores of miles their dazzling sheen is visible--a strange patch of silver on the vast brown plains. Who acts: dazzling sheen. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 2

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For scores of miles their dazzling sheen is visible--a strange patch of silver on the vast brown plains.

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**Who acts:** dazzling sheen · **What happens:** be, score · **To what, where:** miles

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dazzling sheen), 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:pg77804:19:2
# text = For scores of miles their dazzling sheen is visible--a strange patch of silver on the vast brown plains.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	scores	score	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sheen	sheen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | miles's dazzling sheen |  |  |  |  | for scores of miles; a strange patch of silver on the vast brown plains *parataxis*; visible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **score** |  |  | miles |  |  |  |  | nom score «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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