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title: A wee hearth of clay rises a few inches from the floor; a yard above… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wee hearth of clay rises a few inches from the floor; a yard above it hangs the chimney, like a big white hood; and a little wall, four feet high, runs from it out into the room, that the wind from the outer door may not blow the ashes. Who acts: wee hearth, yard, little wall, wind. A sentence of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 82

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A wee hearth of clay rises a few inches from the floor; a yard above it hangs the chimney, like a big white hood; and a little wall, four feet high, runs from it out into the room, that the wind from the outer door may not blow the ashes.

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**Who acts:** wee hearth, yard, little wall, wind · **What happens:** rise, hang, run out, not blow · **To what, where:** few inches, floor, chimney, hearth, ashes

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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 (wee hearth, yard, little wall, wind), 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:pg77804:2:83
# text = A wee hearth of clay rises a few inches from the floor; a yard above it hangs the chimney, like a big white hood; and a little wall, four feet high, runs from it out into the room, that the wind from the outer door may not blow the ashes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
37	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	out	out	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
52	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | a wee hearth of clay | a few inches |  | the floor |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient inch=Extent from floor=Initial\_State |
| 2 | **hang** | present | a yard above hearth | the chimney |  |  |  | like a big white hood | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Patient |
| 3 | **run out** | present | a little wall |  |  | hearth |  | into the room; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **blow** | may | the wind from the outer door | the ashes |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ash=Patient |

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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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