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title: In the very center of it they came to a deep _pozo_--a square well,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the very center of it they came to a deep _pozo_--a square well, with steps at one side leading down to the water’s edge. Who acts: women, steps. 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 d
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 74

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In the very center of it they came to a deep \_pozo\_--a square well, with steps at one side leading down to the water’s edge.

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**Who acts:** women, steps · **What happens:** come, lead down · **To what, where:** center

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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 (women, steps), 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:pg77804:10:74
# text = In the very center of it they came to a deep _pozo_--a square well, with steps at one side leading down to the water’s edge.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	pozo	pozo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | women *= woman* |  |  | the center of center |  | to a deep \_ pozo and a square; steps at one side *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pozo=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lead down** | gerund | steps at one side *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the water's edge; down *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to edge=Patient |

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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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