--- title: They were dreadfully poor, and the house was almost falling down, an… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: They were dreadfully poor, and the house was almost falling down, and the poor, wrinkled Old-Woman-Mole sat huddled in the corner by the fireplace, trying to keep warm by a few dying coals. Who acts: plains, house, fireplace. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plains, house, fireplace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:19:44 # text = They were dreadfully poor, and the house was almost falling down, and the poor, wrinkled Old-Woman-Mole sat huddled in the corner by the fireplace, trying to keep warm by a few dying coals. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 dreadfully dreadfully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 almost almost ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 wrinkled wrinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 19 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 huddled huddle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 amod _ _ 41 coals coal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | plains *= plain* | | | | | dreadfully, poor *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fall down** | past · progressive | the house | | | | | almost *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** | | plains *= plain* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wrinkle** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **huddle** | past · passive | the fireplace | wrinkled Old Woman Mole | | the corner | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | | 6 | **try** | gerund | plains *= plain* *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | plains *= plain* *not said here* | | | | | by a few dying coals; warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by coal=Location | | 8 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/19/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/19/44/) - ↑ back to [The Accursed Lake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/19/)