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title: The room is long and low, and overhead are dark, round rafters--the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The room is long and low, and overhead are dark, round rafters--the trunks of straight pine-trees that used to purr on the sides of the most famous mountain in New Mexico. Who acts: room, overhead, straight pine trees. 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 Brown Story-tellers, sentence 74

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The room is long and low, and overhead are dark, round rafters--the trunks of straight pine-trees that used to purr on the sides of the most famous mountain in New Mexico.

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**Who acts:** room, overhead, straight pine trees · **What happens:** be, use, purr · **To what, where:** sides

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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 (room, overhead, straight pine trees), 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:pg77804:2:75
# text = The room is long and low, and overhead are dark, round rafters--the trunks of straight pine-trees that used to purr on the sides of the most famous mountain in New Mexico.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	overhead	overhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rafters	rafter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	purr	purr	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the room |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | overhead |  |  |  |  | round rafters and the trunks of straight pine trees *obl*; dark *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | past | straight pine trees |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **purr** | to-infinitive | straight pine trees *not said here* |  |  | the sides of the famous mountain in New Mexico |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |

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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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