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title: Eccentric actions also lay one open to accusation; and when I first… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eccentric actions also lay one open to accusation; and when I first came here I was dangerously near being classed with the witches because, to amuse my dusky little neighbors, I imitated various animal cries to their great edification, but to the very serious doubt of their elders. Who acts: Eccent
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 131

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Eccentric actions also lay one open to accusation; and when I first came here I was dangerously near being classed with the witches because, to amuse my dusky little neighbors, I imitated various animal cries to their great edification, but to the very serious doubt of their elders.

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**Who acts:** Eccentric actions, I, various animal, animals · **What happens:** lie, come, class, amuse, imitate, cry · **To what, where:** one, I, dusky little neighbors, great edification, elders

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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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eccentric actions, I, various animal, animals), 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:pg77804:23:131
# text = Eccentric actions also lay one open to accusation; and when I first came here I was dangerously near being classed with the witches because, to amuse my dusky little neighbors, I imitated various animal cries to their great edification, but to the very serious doubt of their elders.
1	Eccentric	eccentric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	accusation	accusation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
18	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	classed	class	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	imitated	imitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	edification	edification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Eccentric actions | one |  |  |  | to the serious doubt of animals's elders | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | I |  |  | here |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **class** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | with the witches; dangerously *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **amuse** | to-infinitive |  | my dusky little neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neighbor=Experiencer |
| 5 | **imitate** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | various animal |  | animals's great edification |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to edification=Recipient |
| 7 | **edify** |  | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | nom edification «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **doubt** |  |  | animals's elders |  |  |  |  | nom doubt «cognition 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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