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title: At last came the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, who had waited to watch the fa… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last came the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, who had waited to watch the failure of the others. Who acts: Yellow Corn Maidens, others. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 41

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At last came the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, who had waited to watch the failure of the others.

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**Who acts:** Yellow Corn Maidens, others · **What happens:** come, wait, watch, fail · **To what, where:** Yellow Corn Maidens, last, failure

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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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yellow Corn Maidens, others), 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:pg77804:10:41
# text = At last came the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, who had waited to watch the failure of the others.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the Yellow Corn Maidens |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | past · perfect | the Yellow Corn Maidens |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the Yellow Corn Maidens *not said here* | the failure of the others |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Theme |
| 4 | **fail** |  | the others |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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