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description: Perhaps you would like to know _why_ those lakes are salt now--for my Indian neighbors say that once they were fresh and full of fish, and that the deer and buffalo came from all the country round to drink there. Who acts: you, lakes, Indian neighbors, neighbors. A sentence of «The man who married t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 6

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Perhaps you would like to know \_why\_ those lakes are salt now--for my Indian neighbors say that once they were fresh and full of fish, and that the deer and buffalo came from all the country round to drink there.

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**Who acts:** you, lakes, Indian neighbors, neighbors, deer · **What happens:** like, know, be, say, come, drink · **To what, where:** salt, country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, lakes, Indian neighbors, neighbors), 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:pg77804:19:6
# text = Perhaps you would like to know _why_ those lakes are salt now--for my Indian neighbors say that once they were fresh and full of fish, and that the deer and buffalo came from all the country round to drink there.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	round	round	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
45	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | would | you |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that lakes | salt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my Indian neighbors |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past | neighbors *= neighbor* |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | neighbors *= neighbor* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fish | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past | the deer and buffalo |  |  | all country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **drink** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | there |  | round *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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