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title: Patricio had a broad strip of rawhide across his knee, and was scrap… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Patricio had a broad strip of rawhide across his knee, and was scraping the hair from it with a dull knife. Who acts: Patricio. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes, with its dependency tree and t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 3

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Patricio had a broad strip of rawhide across his knee, and was scraping the hair from it with a dull knife.

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**Who acts:** Patricio · **What happens:** have, scrape · **To what, where:** broad strip, knee, hair

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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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patricio), 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:pg77804:8:3
# text = Patricio had a broad strip of rawhide across his knee, and was scraping the hair from it with a dull knife.
1	Patricio	Patricio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rawhide	rawhide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	scraping	scrape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Patricio | a broad strip of rawhide |  | Patricio's knee |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient |
| 2 | **scrape** | past · progressive | Patricio *not said here* | the hair |  | hair |  | with a dull knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Patient from it=Source with knife=Instrument |

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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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