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title: It circled over the town a long time, and the people cried out with… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It circled over the town a long time, and the people cried out with wonder and fear at seeing an Eagle with a boy on his back. Who acts: string, people. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, wit
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 27

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It circled over the town a long time, and the people cried out with wonder and fear at seeing an Eagle with a boy on his back.

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**Who acts:** string, people · **What happens:** circle, cry out, see · **To what, where:** town, Eagle

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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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (string, people), 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:pg77804:20:27
# text = It circled over the town a long time, and the people cried out with wonder and fear at seeing an Eagle with a boy on his back.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	circled	circle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **circle** | past | string |  |  | the town | time |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the people |  |  |  |  | with wonder and fear | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with wonder=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | the people *not said here* | a Eagle |  |  |  | with a boy on boy's back | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus |

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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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