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title: The Indian was a very famous runner, and the challenger depended on… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indian was a very famous runner, and the challenger depended on the distance alone to wear him out. Who acts: Indian, challenger. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails, with its dependency tree and the
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 58

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The Indian was a very famous runner, and the challenger depended on the distance alone to wear him out.

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**Who acts:** Indian, challenger · **What happens:** be, depend, wear out · **To what, where:** famous runner, challenger

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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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, challenger), 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:pg77804:16:59
# text = The Indian was a very famous runner, and the challenger depended on the distance alone to wear him out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	challenger	challenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	depended	depend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Indian | a famous runner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **depend** | past | the challenger |  |  |  |  | on the distance; alone *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on distance=Theme |
| 3 | **wear out** | to-infinitive | the challenger *not said here* | challenger |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source |

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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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