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title: It is true that in this hill of bad repute there are several lava-ca… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is true that in this hill of bad repute there are several lava-caves, with floors of white sand blown in from the _llano_; and that in these caves there are a few human bones. Who acts: pair, several lava caves. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 76

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It is true that in this hill of bad repute there are several lava-caves, with floors of white sand blown in from the \_llano\_; and that in these caves there are a few human bones.

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**Who acts:** pair, several lava caves · **What happens:** be, blow in · **To what, where:** hill, white sand, few human bones

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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 (pair, several lava caves), 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:pg77804:32:76
# text = It is true that in this hill of bad repute there are several lava-caves, with floors of white sand blown in from the _llano_; and that in these caves there are a few human bones.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	repute	repute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	llano	llano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | pair |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | several lava caves and floors of white sand |  |  | this hill of bad repute; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location |
| 3 | **blow in** | participle |  | white sand *not said here* |  |  |  | from the llano | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from llano=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | pair *not said here* | a few human bones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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