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description: There seemed to be some spell about these Ogres--besides their frequent hungry spells--for the Pueblos, who were so brave in the face of other foes, never dared fight these terrible cave-dwellers. Who acts: some, Pueblos, men. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 34

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There seemed to be some spell about these Ogres--besides their frequent hungry spells--for the Pueblos, who were so brave in the face of other foes, never dared fight these terrible cave-dwellers.

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**Who acts:** some, Pueblos, men · **What happens:** seem, be, not dare, not fight, spell · **To what, where:** face, terrible cave dwellers

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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 (some, Pueblos, men), 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:pg77804:32:34
# text = There seemed to be some spell about these Ogres--besides their frequent hungry spells--for the Pueblos, who were so brave in the face of other foes, never dared fight these terrible cave-dwellers.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spell	spell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	Ogres	ogre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
35	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
36	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | some |  |  |  |  | about this Ogres; besides men's frequent hungry spells for the Pueblos; spell *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Pueblos |  |  | the face of other foes |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **dare** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **fight** | infinitive |  | this terrible cave dwellers |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dweller=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **spell** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | for the Pueblos | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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