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title: The latter I have often seen throwing upon a stone at the crest of a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter I have often seen throwing upon a stone at the crest of a mountain pass the quid of coca-leaves they had been chewing. Who acts: latter, throwing, leaves. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 48

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The latter I have often seen throwing upon a stone at the crest of a mountain pass the quid of coca-leaves they had been chewing.

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**Who acts:** latter, throwing, leaves · **What happens:** see, throw, pass, chew · **To what, where:** crest, quid, coca leaves

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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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter, throwing, leaves), 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:pg77804:20:48
# text = The latter I have often seen throwing upon a stone at the crest of a mountain pass the quid of coca-leaves they had been chewing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	quid	quid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	coca	coca	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux	_	_
27	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | the latter |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund |  |  |  | the crest of a mountain |  | upon a stone | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon stone=Destination |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive | throwing | the quid of coca leaves |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quid=Trajectory |
| 4 | **chew** | past · perfect · progressive | leaves *= leaf* | coca leaves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |

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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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