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title: IN the times that were farthest back, the forefathers of those who n… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: IN the times that were farthest back, the forefathers of those who now dwell in Isleta were scattered about in many small villages. Who acts: that. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls, with its dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 1

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IN the times that were farthest back, the forefathers of those who now dwell in Isleta were scattered about in many small villages.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** be, dwell, scatter · **To what, where:** Isleta, forefathers, many small villages

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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 Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg77804:22:1
# text = IN the times that were farthest back, the forefathers of those who now dwell in Isleta were scattered about in many small villages.
1	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | present |  |  |  | Isleta | now | who *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=Location |
| 3 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | the forefathers of those |  | many small villages | time |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in village=Destination |

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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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