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title: She had a great many anecdotes of a certain ogre-giantess who lived… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a great many anecdotes of a certain ogre-giantess who lived in the dark gorges of the mountains to the South, and so much did Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee hear of this wonderful personage--who was the terror of all that country--that their boyish ambition was fired. Who acts: Mother, certain ogre
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 39

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She had a great many anecdotes of a certain ogre-giantess who lived in the dark gorges of the mountains to the South, and so much did Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee hear of this wonderful personage--who was the terror of all that country--that their boyish ambition was fired.

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**Who acts:** Mother, certain ogre giantess, wonderful personage, Máw · **What happens:** have, live, do, be, fire, ambition · **To what, where:** great many anecdotes, dark gorges, Máw, terror, boyish ambition

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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 Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, certain ogre giantess, wonderful personage, Máw), 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:pg77804:31:39
# text = She had a great many anecdotes of a certain ogre-giantess who lived in the dark gorges of the mountains to the South, and so much did Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee hear of this wonderful personage--who was the terror of all that country--that their boyish ambition was fired.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	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	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	giantess	giantess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gorges	gorge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	Máw	Máw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Sahv	Sahv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	Oó	Oó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	yah	yah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	hear	hear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
51	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	boyish	boyish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	ambition	ambition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Mother | a great many anecdotes of a certain ogre giantess |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anecdote=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | a certain ogre giantess |  |  | the dark gorges of the mountains to the South |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gorge=Location |
| 3 | **do** | past |  | Máw and Oó wee hear of this wonderful personage |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent máw=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this wonderful personage | the terror |  |  |  | of all country | tree rules |
| 5 | **fire** | past · passive |  | Máw's boyish ambition |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **ambition** |  | Máw |  |  |  |  |  | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: 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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