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description: One day there came climbing up the stone ladder to the cliff-built pueblo a tall and handsome stranger. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 5

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One day there came climbing up the stone ladder to the cliff-built pueblo a tall and handsome stranger.

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**What happens:** come, climb up, build · **To what, where:** stone ladder

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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 North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77804:21:5
# text = One day there came climbing up the stone ladder to the cliff-built pueblo a tall and handsome stranger.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb up** | gerund |  | the stone ladder |  |  |  | to the built pueblo; a tall stranger *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | cliff *compound* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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