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title: It seems as though the hot winds of the Southwest had dried him as t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems as though the hot winds of the Southwest had dried him as they dry the forgotten last year’s apples that shrivel here and there upon lonely boughs. Who acts: It, men, apples. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The B
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 87

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It seems as though the hot winds of the Southwest had dried him as they dry the forgotten last year’s apples that shrivel here and there upon lonely boughs.

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**Who acts:** It, men, apples · **What happens:** seem, dry, forget, shrivel, wind · **To what, where:** hot winds, apples, Southwest

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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 (It, men, apples), 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:pg77804:2:88
# text = It seems as though the hot winds of the Southwest had dried him as they dry the forgotten last year’s apples that shrivel here and there upon lonely boughs.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Southwest	Southwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dry	dry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shrivel	shrivel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dry** | past · perfect · passive |  | the hot winds of the Southwest |  |  |  | host *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dry** | present | men *= man* | the forgotten last year's apples |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient apple=Result |
| 4 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shrivel** | present | the forgotten last year's apples |  |  | here; there |  | upon lonely boughs | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **wind** |  |  | the Southwest |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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