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title: At last, after a weary, weary way, he came so near the Sun Lake, tha… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, after a weary, weary way, he came so near the Sun Lake, that the _Whit-lah-wíd-deh_[67] of the Trues saw him coming, and went in to report. Who acts: boy, Whit lah, wíd deh. 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 63

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At last, after a weary, weary way, he came so near the Sun Lake, that the \_Whit-lah-wíd-deh\_\[67\] of the Trues saw him coming, and went in to report.

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**Who acts:** boy, Whit lah, wíd deh · **What happens:** come, deh, see, go in, report · **To what, where:** last weary weary way, Sun Lake, boy

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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 (boy, Whit lah, wíd deh), 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:pg77804:19:64
# text = At last, after a weary, weary way, he came so near the Sun Lake, that the _Whit-lah-wíd-deh_[67] of the Trues saw him coming, and went in to report.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	lah	lah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	wíd	wíd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	67	67	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | boy | a last weary weary way *not said here* |  | the Sun Lake |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **deh** |  | Whit lah |  |  |  |  | 67 of the Trues *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | the wíd deh | boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go in** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **report** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: 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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