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description: And when you say, ‘We are at the top of the mountain,’ he must answer, ‘No, we are down in the mountain--at the bottom of it.’ Who acts: you, We, heart. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, with its depe
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 81

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And when you say, ‘We are at the top of the mountain,’ he must answer, ‘No, we are down in the mountain--at the bottom of it.’

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**Who acts:** you, We, heart · **What happens:** say, be, answer · **To what, where:** top, bottom, mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, We, heart), 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:pg77804:23:81
# text = And when you say, ‘We are at the top of the mountain,’ he must answer, ‘No, we are down in the mountain--at the bottom of it.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | We |  |  | the top |  | of the mountain | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | must | heart |  |  | the bottom of bottom |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | we |  |  | the mountain |  | down *property* | tree rules |

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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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