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title: He was bright and chipper as a young blackbird, and it was only of l… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was bright and chipper as a young blackbird, and it was only of late that a touch of rheumatism took the youth out of his legs. Who acts: Desiderio, face, touch. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 58

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He was bright and chipper as a young blackbird, and it was only of late that a touch of rheumatism took the youth out of his legs.

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**Who acts:** Desiderio, face, touch · **What happens:** be, take, touch · **To what, where:** youth, legs, rheumatism

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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 (Desiderio, face, touch), 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:pg77804:32:58
# text = He was bright and chipper as a young blackbird, and it was only of late that a touch of rheumatism took the youth out of his legs.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	chipper	chipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	rheumatism	rheumatism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Desiderio |  |  |  |  | chipper as a young blackbird *conj*; bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | face |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | a touch of rheumatism | the youth |  | Desiderio's legs |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent youth=Theme out leg=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **touch** |  |  | rheumatism |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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