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title: But there again it was the same, and again they ran many moons till… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But there again it was the same, and again they ran many moons till they came to the Trues of the Center, who live here in Isleta. Who acts: chéer, Trues. 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, w
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 87

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But there again it was the same, and again they ran many moons till they came to the Trues of the Center, who live here in Isleta.

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**Who acts:** chéer, Trues · **What happens:** be, run, come, live · **To what, where:** many moons, Trues, Isleta

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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 (chéer, Trues), 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:pg77804:12:87
# text = But there again it was the same, and again they ran many moons till they came to the Trues of the Center, who live here in Isleta.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Center	Center	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | chéer |  |  | there | again | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | Trues *= true* | many moons |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moon=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | Trues *= true* |  |  | the Trues of the Center |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to true=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **live** | present | the Trues of the Center |  |  | Isleta; here |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=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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