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title: So the hill of _Kú-mai_ was a peculiarly fit place for the Ogres to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the hill of _Kú-mai_ was a peculiarly fit place for the Ogres to dwell in. Who acts: hill. 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 20

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So the hill of \_Kú-mai\_ was a peculiarly fit place for the Ogres to dwell in.

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**Who acts:** hill · **What happens:** be, dwell in · **To what, where:** fit place

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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 (hill), 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:pg77804:32:20
# text = So the hill of _Kú-mai_ was a peculiarly fit place for the Ogres to dwell in.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Kú	Kú	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	mai	mai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Ogres	ogre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the hill of Kú mai \_ | a fit place |  |  |  | for the Ogres | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell in** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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