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title: When they came to the great forest, there was the Fish-Animal waitin… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to the great forest, there was the Fish-Animal waiting for them, and taking both on his back he carried them safely through. Who acts: daughters, Fish Animal, Cacique. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ac
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 116

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When they came to the great forest, there was the Fish-Animal waiting for them, and taking both on his back he carried them safely through.

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**Who acts:** daughters, Fish Animal, Cacique · **What happens:** come, be, wait, take, carry · **To what, where:** great forest, both, back, daughters

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, Fish Animal, Cacique), 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:pg77804:19:117
# text = When they came to the great forest, there was the Fish-Animal waiting for them, and taking both on his back he carried them safely through.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Fish	Fish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Animal	Animal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
15	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
21	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	through	through	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | the great forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | the Fish Animal |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the Fish Animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for daughters *= daughter* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | the Fish Animal *not said here* | both |  | Cacique's back |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent both=Theme on back=Destination |
| 5 | **carry** | past | Cacique | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | safely, through *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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