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title: There is no big front log, but three or four gnarled cedar sticks, s… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no big front log, but three or four gnarled cedar sticks, standing on one end, crackle loudly. Who acts: big front log. 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 tree and the pr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 83

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There is no big front log, but three or four gnarled cedar sticks, standing on one end, crackle loudly.

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**Who acts:** big front log · **What happens:** be, gnarl, stand, crackle · **To what, where:** three gnarled cedar sticks, one end

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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 (big front log), 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:pg77804:2:84
# text = There is no big front log, but three or four gnarled cedar sticks, standing on one end, crackle loudly.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	gnarled	gnarl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	cedar	cedar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	crackle	crackle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no big front log | three gnarled cedar sticks |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gnarl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | no big front log *not said here* |  |  |  | on one end |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location |
| 4 | **crackle** | infinitive | no big front log *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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