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title: They were dressed in red blankets, with leather leggings glistening… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They were dressed in red blankets, with leather leggings glistening with silver buttons from top to bottom, and gay moccasins. Who acts: leather leggings. 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 it
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 14

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They were dressed in red blankets, with leather leggings glistening with silver buttons from top to bottom, and gay moccasins.

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**Who acts:** leather leggings · **What happens:** dress, glisten · **To what, where:** warriors, red blankets, top

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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 (leather leggings), 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:pg77804:5:14
# text = They were dressed in red blankets, with leather leggings glistening with silver buttons from top to bottom, and gay moccasins.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	leggings	legging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | warriors *= warrior* |  | red blankets |  | with leather leggings; gay moccasins *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **glisten** | gerund | leather leggings *not said here* |  |  | top to bottom |  | with silver buttons | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with button=Theme |

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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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