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description: His hair was very gray, and his kindly old face such an incredible mass of wrinkles that I used to fancy Father Time himself must have said: “No, no! Who acts: hair, I, child. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Gr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 50

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His hair was very gray, and his kindly old face such an incredible mass of wrinkles that I used to fancy Father Time himself must have said: “No, no!

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**Who acts:** hair, I, child · **What happens:** be, use, fancy, say · **To what, where:** incredible mass, Father Time · **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 (hair, I, child), 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:pg77804:32:50
# text = His hair was very gray, and his kindly old face such an incredible mass of wrinkles that I used to fancy Father Time himself must have said: “No, no!
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	incredible	incredible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Time	Time	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	31	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | child's hair |  |  |  |  | child's old face *obl*; gray *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past | I | such incredible mass of wrinkles |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fancy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Father Time |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent time=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | must · perfect | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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