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title: A stern, quiet but manly face it seems to me now; but once I would h… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A stern, quiet but manly face it seems to me now; but once I would have thought it a very savage one, with its frame of long, jet hair, its piercing eyes, and the broad streak of red paint across its cheeks. Who acts: stern face, I. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo India
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 4

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A stern, quiet but manly face it seems to me now; but once I would have thought it a very savage one, with its frame of long, jet hair, its piercing eyes, and the broad streak of red paint across its cheeks.

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**Who acts:** stern face, I · **What happens:** seem, think · **To what, where:** me, face

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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 (stern face, I), 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:pg77804:27:4
# text = A stern, quiet but manly face it seems to me now; but once I would have thought it a very savage one, with its frame of long, jet hair, its piercing eyes, and the broad streak of red paint across its cheeks.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	jet	jet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	piercing	piercing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	across	across	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | a stern face |  | me |  | now | it *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | would · perfect | I | face |  |  |  | with face's frame of long and jet hair and face's piercing eyes; a savage one *obj*; the broad streak of red paint across face's cheeks *conj* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme one=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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