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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 70

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The young men are gathered in another corner by themselves, eating roasted corn, and talking in whispers so as not to disturb their elders, for respect to age is the corner-stone of all Indian training.

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**Who acts:** talking, respect · **What happens:** gather, eat, roast, talk, not disturb, be · **To what, where:** young men, corner, roasted corn, whispers, elders

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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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talking, respect), 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:pg77804:2:70
# text = The young men are gathered in another corner by themselves, eating roasted corn, and talking in whispers so as not to disturb their elders, for respect to age is the corner-stone of all Indian training.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	whispers	whisper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
29	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	advcl	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
39	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present · passive |  | the young men |  | another corner by men |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  | roasted corn |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |
| 3 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  | whispers |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **disturb** | to-infinitive | talking | men's elders |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus elder=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | respect  age |  |  |  |  | for the corner stone; of all Indian training | tree rules |

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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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