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title: There was one queer thing about these Ogres--on their forages they a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was one queer thing about these Ogres--on their forages they always wore buckskin masks, just like those of the _Abuelos_ of the sacred dance. Who acts: one queer thing, Ogres. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hu
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 44

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There was one queer thing about these Ogres--on their forages they always wore buckskin masks, just like those of the \_Abuelos\_ of the sacred dance.

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**Who acts:** one queer thing, Ogres · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** buckskin masks, forages

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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 (one queer thing, 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:pg77804:32:44
# text = There was one queer thing about these Ogres--on their forages they always wore buckskin masks, just like those of the _Abuelos_ of the sacred dance.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	Ogres	ogre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	forages	forage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	masks	mask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Abuelos	Abuelos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | one queer thing about this Ogres |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | past | Ogres *= ogre* | buckskin masks |  | Ogres's forages |  | like those of the Abuelos; always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=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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