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title: Many moons they kept running, but the skeleton was always at their h… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many moons they kept running, but the skeleton was always at their heels. Who acts: Many moons, skeleton. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 79

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Many moons they kept running, but the skeleton was always at their heels.

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**Who acts:** Many moons, skeleton · **What happens:** keep, run, be · **To what, where:** heels

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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 (Many moons, skeleton), 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:pg77804:12:79
# text = Many moons they kept running, but the skeleton was always at their heels.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Many moons |  |  |  |  | moons *= moon* *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | Many moons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the skeleton |  |  | boys's heels |  | boys *= boy* *nmod:poss*; always *property* | tree rules |

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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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