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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 79

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Over in a corner are strange earthen jars of water, with little gourd dippers floating, and here and there upon the wall hang bows and arrows in sheaths of the tawny hide of the mountain lion; queer woven belts of red and green, and heavy necklaces of silver and coral, with charms of turquoise--the stone that stole its color from the sky.

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**Who acts:** corner, gourd dippers, stone · **What happens:** be, float, hang, weave, steal · **To what, where:** strange earthen jars, bows, sheaths, color, sky

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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 (corner, gourd dippers, stone), 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:pg77804:2:80
# text = Over in a corner are strange earthen jars of water, with little gourd dippers floating, and here and there upon the wall hang bows and arrows in sheaths of the tawny hide of the mountain lion; queer woven belts of red and green, and heavy necklaces of silver and coral, with charms of turquoise--the stone that stole its color from the sky.
1	Over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gourd	gourd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dippers	dipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
16	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
26	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	sheaths	sheath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	queer	queer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
63	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	64	nsubj	_	_
64	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	acl:relcl	_	_
65	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	_
67	from	from	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a corner | strange earthen jars and gourd dippers and queer woven belts of red and heavy necklaces of silver and coral and charms of turquoise and the stone |  |  |  | of water; gourd dippers and queer woven belts of red and heavy necklaces of silver and coral and charms of turquoise and the stone *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **float** | gerund | gourd dippers and queer woven belts of red and heavy necklaces of silver and coral and charms of turquoise and the stone *not said here* |  |  | here; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | infinitive | gourd dippers and queer woven belts of red and heavy necklaces of silver and coral and charms of turquoise and the stone *not said here* | bows and arrows |  | sheaths of the tawny hide of the mountain lion |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bow=Theme in sheath=Destination |
| 4 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **steal** | past | the stone | corner's color |  | the sky |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent color=Theme from sky=Source |

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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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