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title: Deep in its gloomy bowels they huddled on the white sand which floor… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep in its gloomy bowels they huddled on the white sand which floors all the caves there; and crannies overhead carried away the smoke from their fires, which curled from crevices at the top of the peak far above them. Who acts: bowels, crannies. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and oth
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 21

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Deep in its gloomy bowels they huddled on the white sand which floors all the caves there; and crannies overhead carried away the smoke from their fires, which curled from crevices at the top of the peak far above them.

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**Who acts:** bowels, crannies · **What happens:** huddle, carry away, curl, fire · **To what, where:** caves, white sand, smoke, fires, crevices

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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 (bowels, crannies), 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:pg77804:32:21
# text = Deep in its gloomy bowels they huddled on the white sand which floors all the caves there; and crannies overhead carried away the smoke from their fires, which curled from crevices at the top of the peak far above them.
1	Deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bowels	bowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	huddled	huddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	13	det	_	_
13	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	crannies	cranny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	crevices	crevice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
41	above	above	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **huddle** | past | bowels *= bowel* | all caves |  | the white sand and which floors |  | deep *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location |
| 2 | **carry away** | past | crannies | the smoke |  | crannies's fires |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme from fire=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **curl** | participle · passive |  | crannies's fires |  | crevices |  | at the top of the peak; far *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from crevice=Destination |
| 4 | **fire** |  | crannies *= cranny* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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