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title: For my husband trapped that bird these many years ago, but we could… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For my husband trapped that bird these many years ago, but we could never get another; and that is all we have had to eat ever since. Who acts: we, that. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with its depende
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 48

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For my husband trapped that bird these many years ago, but we could never get another; and that is all we have had to eat ever since.

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**Who acts:** we, that · **What happens:** trap, not get, be, eat · **To what, where:** husband, another

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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 (we, that), 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:pg77804:19:49
# text = For my husband trapped that bird these many years ago, but we could never get another; and that is all we have had to eat ever since.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	since	since	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | participle · passive |  | my husband |  |  |  | that bird *obj*; ago *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **get** | could | we | another |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer another=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | that |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj*; all, have *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | since *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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