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title: He saw a great firelit room full of witches in the shapes of ravens… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw a great firelit room full of witches in the shapes of ravens and vultures, wolves and other animals of ill omen. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 27

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He saw a great firelit room full of witches in the shapes of ravens and vultures, wolves and other animals of ill omen.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** great firelit room

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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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg77804:28:27
# text = He saw a great firelit room full of witches in the shapes of ravens and vultures, wolves and other animals of ill omen.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	firelit	firelit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	vultures	vulture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	omen	omen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | man | a great firelit room |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus |

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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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