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title: One day their grandfather, who was a True Believer (in all the ancie… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day their grandfather, who was a True Believer (in all the ancient rites), caught them in a corner smoking the _weer_. Who acts: grandfather, One day, corner. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-k
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 42

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One day their grandfather, who was a True Believer (in all the ancient rites), caught them in a corner smoking the \_weer\_.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, One day, corner · **What happens:** be, catch, smoke · **To what, where:** True Believer, boys, corner

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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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, One day, corner), 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:pg77804:12:42
# text = One day their grandfather, who was a True Believer (in all the ancient rites), caught them in a corner smoking the _weer_.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Believer	Believer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	weer	wee	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | boys's grandfather | a True Believer |  |  |  | all ancient rites *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | One day  boys's grandfather | boys *= boy* |  | a corner |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **smoke** | gerund | a corner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wee *property* | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «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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