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title: But beyond the third lake began a great forest which stretched clear… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But beyond the third lake began a great forest which stretched clear across the world, and was so dense with thorns and brush that no man could pass it. Who acts: great forest, man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Acc
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 96

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But beyond the third lake began a great forest which stretched clear across the world, and was so dense with thorns and brush that no man could pass it.

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**Who acts:** great forest, man · **What happens:** begin, stretch, be, brush, pass · **To what, where:** great forest, world, forest

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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 (great forest, man), 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:pg77804:19:97
# text = But beyond the third lake began a great forest which stretched clear across the world, and was so dense with thorns and brush that no man could pass it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	clear	clear	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	brush	brush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past |  | a great forest |  |  |  | beyond the third lake | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | a great forest |  |  | the world |  | clear *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across world=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with thorns; dense *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **brush** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pass** | could | no man | forest |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |

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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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