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description: But next morning when Ees-tée-ah Muts awoke he was not in his own home at all, but lying on a tiny shelf far up a dizzy cliff. Who acts: Muts, frog. 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 tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 37

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But next morning when Ees-tée-ah Muts awoke he was not in his own home at all, but lying on a tiny shelf far up a dizzy cliff.

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**Who acts:** Muts, frog · **What happens:** awake, not be, lie · **To what, where:** Ees tée, own home, tiny shelf, next morning

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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 (Muts, frog), 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:pg77804:28:37
# text = But next morning when Ees-tée-ah Muts awoke he was not in his own home at all, but lying on a tiny shelf far up a dizzy cliff.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	Ees	Ees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
23	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | Muts | Ees tée *not said here* |  |  |  | up a dizzy cliff | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tée=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | frog |  |  | frog's own home |  | at all | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | a tiny shelf |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location |

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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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