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title: Some time passed very pleasantly, the Hunter going out daily and bri… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time passed very pleasantly, the Hunter going out daily and bringing back great quantities of game. Who acts: Hunter. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 34

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Some time passed very pleasantly, the Hunter going out daily and bringing back great quantities of game.

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**Who acts:** Hunter · **What happens:** pass, go out, bring back · **To what, where:** time, great quantities

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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 (Hunter), 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:pg77804:19:35
# text = Some time passed very pleasantly, the Hunter going out daily and bringing back great quantities of game.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | some time *not said here* |  |  |  | pleasantly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | gerund | the Hunter |  |  |  | time | daily *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring back** | gerund | the Hunter *not said here* | great quantities of game |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent quantity=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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