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title: A small hoop of willow is painted gaily, and has ornamental buckskin… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A small hoop of willow is painted gaily, and has ornamental buckskin thongs stretched across it from side to side, spoke-fashion. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 34

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A small hoop of willow is painted gaily, and has ornamental buckskin thongs stretched across it from side to side, spoke-fashion.

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**What happens:** paint, have, stretch, speak · **To what, where:** small hoop, ornamental buckskin thongs, willow, fashion · **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 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: 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:pg77804:8:35
# text = A small hoop of willow is painted gaily, and has ornamental buckskin thongs stretched across it from side to side, spoke-fashion.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	ornamental	ornamental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	buckskin	buckskin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thongs	thong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | present · passive |  | a small hoop of willow |  |  |  | gaily *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | ornamental buckskin thongs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thong=Patient |
| 3 | **stretch** | participle |  | ornamental buckskin thongs *not said here* |  | willow |  | from side to side | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Location |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  | fashion |  |  |  |  | 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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