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title: [96] An Indian bread made by spreading successive films of blue corn… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [96] An Indian bread made by spreading successive films of blue corn-meal batter on a flat hot stone. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 160

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\[96\] An Indian bread made by spreading successive films of blue corn-meal batter on a flat hot stone.

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**What happens:** make, spread, film · **To what, where:** Indian bread, successive films, flat hot stone, 96, blue meal batter

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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: 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:pg77804:27:163
# text = [96] An Indian bread made by spreading successive films of blue corn-meal batter on a flat hot stone.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	96	96	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a Indian bread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **spread** | gerund |  | successive films of blue meal batter |  | a flat hot stone |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent film=Theme on stone=Destination |
| 4 | **film** |  |  | blue meal batter |  |  |  |  | nom film «communication 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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