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title: Ees-tée-ah Muts lay on the narrow ledge as patiently as he could, sl… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ees-tée-ah Muts lay on the narrow ledge as patiently as he could, sleeping sometimes and sometimes thinking of his strange plight. Who acts: Muts, cone. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, with its dependenc
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 58

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Ees-tée-ah Muts lay on the narrow ledge as patiently as he could, sleeping sometimes and sometimes thinking of his strange plight.

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**Who acts:** Muts, cone · **What happens:** lay, sleep, think, plight · **To what, where:** tée, narrow ledge, Ees

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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, cone), 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:pg77804:28:58
# text = Ees-tée-ah Muts lay on the narrow ledge as patiently as he could, sleeping sometimes and sometimes thinking of his strange plight.
1	Ees	ee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | Muts | tée *not said here* |  | the narrow ledge |  | patiently *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tée=Theme on ledge=Destination |
| 2 | **sleep** | gerund | Muts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Muts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of cone's strange plight; sometimes *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **plight** |  | cone |  |  |  |  |  | nom plight «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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