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title: At last they came in sight of the big lake, and over it were great c… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they came in sight of the big lake, and over it were great clouds, with the forked lightning leaping forth. Who acts: daughters, sight, forked lightning. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with its
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 118

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At last they came in sight of the big lake, and over it were great clouds, with the forked lightning leaping forth.

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**Who acts:** daughters, sight, forked lightning · **What happens:** come, be, fork, leap, sight · **To what, where:** last, great clouds, big lake

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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, sight, forked lightning), 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:pg77804:19:119
# text = At last they came in sight of the big lake, and over it were great clouds, with the forked lightning leaping forth.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	forked	fork	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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* |  |  | last |  | in sight of the big lake | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | sight |  |  | great clouds and the forked lightning |  | the forked lightning *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fork** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leap** | gerund | the forked lightning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the big lake |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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