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description: At last all the councilors met together, and decided that there must be another effort made to find the lost wife. Who acts: last councilors, effort. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 97

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At last all the councilors met together, and decided that there must be another effort made to find the lost wife.

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**Who acts:** last councilors, effort · **What happens:** meet, decide, be, make, find, lose · **To what, where:** effort, lost wife · **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 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 (last councilors, effort), 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:pg77804:10:98
# text = At last all the councilors met together, and decided that there must be another effort made to find the lost wife.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	councilors	councilor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | all last councilors |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** | past | all last councilors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | another effort |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | another effort *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | another effort *not said here* | the lost wife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
| 6 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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