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title: Certainly neither of us ever dreamed that, thousands of miles from t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly neither of us ever dreamed that, thousands of miles from the old New England fireplace, when the dear figures that sat with me before its blazing forestick had long been dust, I would be sitting where I am to-night and listening to the strange, dark people who are around me. Who acts: neit
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 73

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Certainly neither of us ever dreamed that, thousands of miles from the old New England fireplace, when the dear figures that sat with me before its blazing forestick had long been dust, I would be sitting where I am to-night and listening to the strange, dark people who are around me.

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**Who acts:** neither, dear figures, blazing forestick, I · **What happens:** dream, sit, blaze, be, listen · **To what, where:** that, old England fireplace, dust

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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 (neither, dear figures, blazing forestick, I), 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:pg77804:2:74
# text = Certainly neither of us ever dreamed that, thousands of miles from the old New England fireplace, when the dear figures that sat with me before its blazing forestick had long been dust, I would be sitting where I am to-night and listening to the strange, dark people who are around me.
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
16	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	forestick	forestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
42	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
54	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
56	around	around	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | neither of us | that |  | the old England fireplace | ever | thousands of miles *obl*; certainly *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the dear figures |  |  |  |  | with me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **blaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past · perfect | fireplace's blazing forestick | dust |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | would · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  | to night |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **listen** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the strange dark people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to people=Theme |

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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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