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title: The Crows were dancing merrily, and singing: “_Ai nana, que-ée-rah,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Crows were dancing merrily, and singing: “_Ai nana, que-ée-rah, que-ée-rah_.” Who acts: Crows. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Crows, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 14

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The Crows were dancing merrily, and singing: “\_Ai nana, que-ée-rah, que-ée-rah\_.”

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**Who acts:** Crows · **What happens:** dance, sing, rah · **To what, where:** Ai nana · **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 Coyote and the Crows. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crows), 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:pg77804:4:14
# text = The Crows were dancing merrily, and singing: “_Ai nana, que-ée-rah, que-ée-rah_.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	nana	nana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ée	ée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	rah	rah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ée	ée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	rah	rah	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past · progressive | the Crows | Ai nana |  |  |  | merrily *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the Crows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rah** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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