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title: In those days there was only a thick forest of cottonwoods where are… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In those days there was only a thick forest of cottonwoods where are now the smiling vineyards, and gardens, and orchards of Isleta, and to reach the _llano_ the three women had to go through this forest. Who acts: thick forest, three women. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pue
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 73

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In those days there was only a thick forest of cottonwoods where are now the smiling vineyards, and gardens, and orchards of Isleta, and to reach the \_llano\_ the three women had to go through this forest.

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**Who acts:** thick forest, three women · **What happens:** be, smile, reach, have, go · **To what, where:** smiling vineyards, llano, forest

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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 (thick forest, three women), 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:pg77804:10:73
# text = In those days there was only a thick forest of cottonwoods where are now the smiling vineyards, and gardens, and orchards of Isleta, and to reach the _llano_ the three women had to go through this forest.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cottonwoods	cottonwood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	amod	_	_
17	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	orchards	orchard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	llano	llano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	through	through	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a thick forest of cottonwoods |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the smiling vineyards and gardens and orchards of Isleta |  |  | now | gardens *conj*; orchards of Isleta *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | to-infinitive | the three women *not said here* | the llano |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent llano=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | the three women |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | the three women *not said here* |  |  | this forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial\_Location |

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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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