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title: A brave sight it was, the army of these little people, singing and d… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A brave sight it was, the army of these little people, singing and dancing and waving their spears. Who acts: brave sight. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 13

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A brave sight it was, the army of these little people, singing and dancing and waving their spears.

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**Who acts:** brave sight · **What happens:** be, sing, dance, wave · **To what, where:** army, spears

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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 War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave sight), 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:pg77804:5:13
# text = A brave sight it was, the army of these little people, singing and dancing and waving their spears.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a brave sight | the army |  |  |  | of this little people; sight *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | a brave sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** | gerund | a brave sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund | a brave sight *not said here* | warriors's spears |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=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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