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title: “Have you any long hairs?”--for he saw many snowbirds lighting near… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Have you any long hairs?”--for he saw many snowbirds lighting near by. Who acts: you, boy, many snowbirds. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 53

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“Have you any long hairs?”--for he saw many snowbirds lighting near by.

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**Who acts:** you, boy, many snowbirds · **What happens:** have, see, light · **To what, where:** long hairs, many snowbirds

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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 (you, boy, many snowbirds), 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:pg77804:19:54
# text = “Have you any long hairs?”--for he saw many snowbirds lighting near by.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	snowbirds	snowbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	near	near	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | any long hairs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | boy | many snowbirds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snowbird=Stimulus |
| 3 | **light** | gerund | many snowbirds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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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