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title: Still, there were some things which he seemed willing to confide to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Still, there were some things which he seemed willing to confide to me; and he always had an attentive listener. Who acts: things, thing. 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 a
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 62

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Still, there were some things which he seemed willing to confide to me; and he always had an attentive listener.

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**Who acts:** things, thing · **What happens:** be, seem, confide, have · **To what, where:** things, me, attentive listener

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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 (things, thing), 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:pg77804:32:62
# text = Still, there were some things which he seemed willing to confide to me; and he always had an attentive listener.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	confide	confide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	attentive	attentive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	listener	listener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | some things |  |  | there | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | thing | some things |  |  |  | willing *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute |
| 3 | **confide** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | past | thing | a attentive listener |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent listener=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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