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title: They were, in fact, aboriginal Ogres, who once sadly ravaged Isleta. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They were, in fact, aboriginal Ogres, who once sadly ravaged Isleta. Who acts: tongue, fact. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 14

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They were, in fact, aboriginal Ogres, who once sadly ravaged Isleta.

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**Who acts:** tongue, fact · **What happens:** be, ravage · **To what, where:** fact, Isleta

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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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue, fact), 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:pg77804:32:14
# text = They were, in fact, aboriginal Ogres, who once sadly ravaged Isleta.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Ogres	ogre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
12	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ravaged	ravage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | tongue |  |  | fact and aboriginal Ogres |  | aboriginal Ogres *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ravage** | past | fact and aboriginal Ogres | Isleta |  |  |  | once, sadly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent isleta=Patient |

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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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