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title: Grandmother Reyes is unrolling the mattresses upon the floor; and wi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandmother Reyes is unrolling the mattresses upon the floor; and with pleasant “good-nights” we scatter for our homes here and there in the quaint adobe village. Who acts: Grandmother, we. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 60

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Grandmother Reyes is unrolling the mattresses upon the floor; and with pleasant “good-nights” we scatter for our homes here and there in the quaint adobe village.

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**Who acts:** Grandmother, we · **What happens:** unroll, scatter · **To what, where:** mattresses, quaint adobe village

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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 Bear\[17\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, we), 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:pg77804:7:61
# text = Grandmother Reyes is unrolling the mattresses upon the floor; and with pleasant “good-nights” we scatter for our homes here and there in the quaint adobe village.
1	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Reyes	Reyes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	unrolling	unroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	scatter	scatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unroll** | present · progressive | Grandmother | the mattresses |  |  |  | upon the floor | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mattress=Patient |
| 2 | **scatter** | present | we |  |  | the quaint adobe village; here; there | night | for our homes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in village=Destination |

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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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