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title: Just then a queer little old woman appeared before her, with a kindl… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then a queer little old woman appeared before her, with a kindly smile. Who acts: queer little old woman. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 19

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Just then a queer little old woman appeared before her, with a kindly smile.

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**Who acts:** queer little old woman · **What happens:** appear

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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, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queer little old woman), 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:pg77804:30:19
# text = Just then a queer little old woman appeared before her, with a kindly smile.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a queer little old woman |  |  |  | before door; then | with a smile | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=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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