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title: The floor is of adobe clay, packed almost as hard as a rock, and upo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The floor is of adobe clay, packed almost as hard as a rock, and upon it are bright-hued blankets, woven in strange figures. Who acts: floor. 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 dependency tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 76

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The floor is of adobe clay, packed almost as hard as a rock, and upon it are bright-hued blankets, woven in strange figures.

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**Who acts:** floor · **What happens:** be, pack, hue, weave · **To what, where:** adobe clay, hued blankets

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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 (floor), 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:pg77804:2:77
# text = The floor is of adobe clay, packed almost as hard as a rock, and upon it are bright-hued blankets, woven in strange figures.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hued	hue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the floor |  |  |  |  | of adobe clay | tree rules |
| 2 | **pack** | participle |  | adobe clay *not said here* |  |  |  | as a rock; hard *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | floor |  |  |  |  | upon hued blankets | tree rules |
| 5 | **weave** | participle |  | hued blankets *not said here* |  |  |  | strange figures *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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