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title: “DON CARLOS,” said Vitorino, throwing another log upon the fire, whi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “DON CARLOS,” said Vitorino, throwing another log upon the fire, which caught his tall shadow and twisted it and set it dancing against the rocky walls of the cañon in which we were camped for the night, “did you ever hear why the Wolf and the Deer are enemies?” Who acts: DON, fire, you, Deer. A sen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 1

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“DON CARLOS,” said Vitorino, throwing another log upon the fire, which caught his tall shadow and twisted it and set it dancing against the rocky walls of the cañon in which we were camped for the night, “did you ever hear why the Wolf and the Deer are enemies?”

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**Who acts:** DON, fire, you, Deer, Vitorino · **What happens:** say, throw, catch, twist, set, dance · **To what, where:** log, fire, tall shadow, shadow, rocky walls, we · **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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DON, fire, you, Deer), 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:pg77804:27:1
# text = “DON CARLOS,” said Vitorino, throwing another log upon the fire, which caught his tall shadow and twisted it and set it dancing against the rocky walls of the cañon in which we were camped for the night, “did you ever hear why the Wolf and the Deer are enemies?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	DON	don	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	CARLOS	CARLOS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Vitorino	Vitorino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	twisted	twist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cañon	cañon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	camped	camp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	48	advmod	_	_
48	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
49	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	_
55	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
56	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | DON |  |  |  |  | Vitorino *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | DON *not said here* | another log |  | the fire |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent log=Theme upon fire=Destination |
| 3 | **catch** | past | the fire | Vitorino's tall shadow |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme |
| 4 | **twist** | past | DON *not said here* | shadow |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **set** | infinitive | DON *not said here* | shadow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dance** | gerund | DON *not said here* |  |  | the rocky walls of the cañon |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location |
| 7 | **camp** | past · passive |  | we |  | the cañon | night |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in which=Location |
| 8 | **hear** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | the Wolf and enemies |  |  | ever |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus |
| 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Deer | enemies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **shadow** |  | Vitorino |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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