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title: From chin to hair-roots, from ear to ear, was such a crowded, tangle… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: From chin to hair-roots, from ear to ear, was such a crowded, tangled, inextricable maze of furrows and cross-harrow lines as I firmly believe never dwelt together on any other one human face. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 54

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From chin to hair-roots, from ear to ear, was such a crowded, tangled, inextricable maze of furrows and cross-harrow lines as I firmly believe never dwelt together on any other one human face.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, believe, not dwell · **To what, where:** crowded tangled inextricable maze, chin, other one human face · **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 (I), 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:pg77804:32:54
# text = From chin to hair-roots, from ear to ear, was such a crowded, tangled, inextricable maze of furrows and cross-harrow lines as I firmly believe never dwelt together on any other one human face.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	tangled	tangled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	inextricable	inextricable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	maze	maze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	cross-harrow	cross-harrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	_
33	together	together	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | such crowded tangled inextricable maze |  | chin to hair roots |  | of furrows and cross-harrow lines | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | present | I | such crowded tangled inextricable maze *not said here* |  |  |  | firmly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **dwell** | participle |  |  |  | any other one human face |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location |

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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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