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title: These Ogres were larger than ordinary men, but otherwise carried no… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: These Ogres were larger than ordinary men, but otherwise carried no outward sign of their odious calling. Who acts: Ogres. 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 pragmati
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 23

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These Ogres were larger than ordinary men, but otherwise carried no outward sign of their odious calling.

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**Who acts:** Ogres · **What happens:** be, carry, sign, call · **To what, where:** outward sign, odious calling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ogres), 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:pg77804:32:23
# text = These Ogres were larger than ordinary men, but otherwise carried no outward sign of their odious calling.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Ogres	ogre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	odious	odious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	calling	calling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this Ogres |  |  |  |  | than ordinary men; large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past | this Ogres *not said here* | no outward sign of Ogres's odious calling |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | Ogres's odious calling |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **call** |  | Ogres *= ogre* |  |  |  |  |  | nom calling «act 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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