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title: Then, of an evening, if I go over to visit some _vecino_ (neighbor),… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, of an evening, if I go over to visit some _vecino_ (neighbor), I am likely to find, in the great adobe living-room, a group of very old men and very young boys gathered about the queer little corner fireplace with its blazing upright sticks. Who acts: I, group. A sentence of «The man who marri
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 68

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Then, of an evening, if I go over to visit some \_vecino\_ (neighbor), I am likely to find, in the great adobe living-room, a group of very old men and very young boys gathered about the queer little corner fireplace with its blazing upright sticks.

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**Who acts:** I, group · **What happens:** go over, visit, be, find, gather · **To what, where:** vecino, great adobe living room

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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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, group), 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:pg77804:2:68
# text = Then, of an evening, if I go over to visit some _vecino_ (neighbor), I am likely to find, in the great adobe living-room, a group of very old men and very young boys gathered about the queer little corner fireplace with its blazing upright sticks.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	vecino	vecino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
31	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
45	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
46	about	about	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
48	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
49	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
54	blazing	blazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go over** | present | I |  |  |  | then; evening | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some vecino |  |  |  | neighbor *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the great adobe living room |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic |
| 5 | **gather** | past | a group of old men and young boys | the great adobe living room *not said here* |  |  |  | about the queer little corner fireplace with group's blazing upright sticks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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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