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title: For a _buffalo_ has died out here, and we must take in some meat.” — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For a _buffalo_ has died out here, and we must take in some meat.” Who acts: we. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 31

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For a \_buffalo\_ has died out here, and we must take in some meat.”

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** die out, take in · **To what, where:** meat

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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, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg77804:17:31
# text = For a _buffalo_ has died out here, and we must take in some meat.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | present · perfect |  |  |  | here |  | for a \_ buffalo \_ | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for \_=Theme |
| 2 | **take in** | must | we | some meat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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