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title: In wandering over the rocky top of the peak, he came to a ledge of r… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In wandering over the rocky top of the peak, he came to a ledge of rocks on the southeast spur of the hill; and there found a fissure, at one end of which was a hole as large as a man’s head. Who acts: Desiderio, hole. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 66

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In wandering over the rocky top of the peak, he came to a ledge of rocks on the southeast spur of the hill; and there found a fissure, at one end of which was a hole as large as a man’s head.

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**Who acts:** Desiderio, hole · **What happens:** wonder, come, find, be, spur · **To what, where:** rocky top, ledge, fissure, one end, hill

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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, hole), 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:pg77804:32:66
# text = In wandering over the rocky top of the peak, he came to a ledge of rocks on the southeast spur of the hill; and there found a fissure, at one end of which was a hole as large as a man’s head.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	southeast	southeast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fissure	fissure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	as	as	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’s	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Desiderio *not said here* |  |  | the rocky top of the peak |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past | Desiderio |  |  | a ledge of rocks on the southeast spur of the hill |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ledge=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | Desiderio *not said here* | a fissure |  | there | at one end |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent fissure=Theme at end=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | past | a hole |  |  |  | of one end | as a man's head; large *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spur** |  |  | the hill |  |  |  |  | nom spur «communication 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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