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title: About midway of the course where the trail touches a great lava-flow… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: About midway of the course where the trail touches a great lava-flow, the Indian dove into a cave. Who acts: midway. 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 pragmatics of ev
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 61

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About midway of the course where the trail touches a great lava-flow, the Indian dove into a cave.

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**Who acts:** midway · **What happens:** touch · **To what, where:** great lava flow, cave

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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 (midway), 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:pg77804:16:62
# text = About midway of the course where the trail touches a great lava-flow, the Indian dove into a cave.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	midway	midway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present | midway of the course | a great lava flow |  | a cave |  | the trail *nsubj* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flow=Co-Theme |

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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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