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description: The walls are white as snow, and you would never imagine that they are built only of cut sods, plastered over and whitewashed. Who acts: walls, you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers, with its depend
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 75

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The walls are white as snow, and you would never imagine that they are built only of cut sods, plastered over and whitewashed.

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**Who acts:** walls, you · **What happens:** be, not imagine, build, plaster over, whitewash · **To what, where:** walls, cut sods

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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 (walls, you), 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:pg77804:2:76
# text = The walls are white as snow, and you would never imagine that they are built only of cut sods, plastered over and whitewashed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	cut	cut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sods	sod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	plastered	plaster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	whitewashed	whitewash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the walls |  |  |  |  | as snow; white *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **imagine** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **build** | present · passive |  | walls *= wall* |  |  |  | cut sods *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sod=Product |
| 4 | **plaster over** | participle |  | cut sods *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **whitewash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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