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title: And opening doors on four sides of the room he showed the Hunter fou… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And opening doors on four sides of the room he showed the Hunter four other huge rooms, all piled from floor to ceiling with corn and wheat and dried squash and the like. Who acts: paht, Hunter, four other huge rooms. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories»
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 23

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And opening doors on four sides of the room he showed the Hunter four other huge rooms, all piled from floor to ceiling with corn and wheat and dried squash and the like.

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**Who acts:** paht, Hunter, four other huge rooms · **What happens:** open, show, room, pile, dry · **To what, where:** doors, four sides, all, floor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (paht, Hunter, four other huge rooms), 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:pg77804:19:24
# text = And opening doors on four sides of the room he showed the Hunter four other huge rooms, all piled from floor to ceiling with corn and wheat and dried squash and the like.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	squash	squash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund |  | doors |  | four sides of the room |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme on side=Location |
| 2 | **show** | past | paht |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **room** |  | the Hunter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pile** | participle · passive | four other huge rooms *not said here* | all |  | floor |  | to ceiling; with corn and wheat and dried squash | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with corn=Theme |
| 5 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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