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title: Their bare faces were seen sometimes by hunters who encountered them… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their bare faces were seen sometimes by hunters who encountered them on the _llano_, but never here in town. Who acts: hunters. 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 pra
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 45

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Their bare faces were seen sometimes by hunters who encountered them on the \_llano\_, but never here in town.

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**Who acts:** hunters · **What happens:** see, encounter · **To what, where:** bare faces, Ogres, llano

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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 (hunters), 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:pg77804:32:45
# text = Their bare faces were seen sometimes by hunters who encountered them on the _llano_, but never here in town.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	llano	llano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive | hunters | Ogres's bare faces |  | here | never | sometimes *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **encounter** | past | hunters | Ogres *= ogre* |  | the llano |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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