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title: After a time he came across a party of Isleteños[75] returning from… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time he came across a party of Isleteños[75] returning from a trading-trip to the Apache country. Who acts: Coyote, party. 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 dependency tree and 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 37

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After a time he came across a party of Isleteños\[75\] returning from a trading-trip to the Apache country.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, party · **What happens:** come, return · **To what, where:** party, trading trip

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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 (Coyote, party), 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:pg77804:22:37
# text = After a time he came across a party of Isleteños[75] returning from a trading-trip to the Apache country.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Isleteños	Isleteños	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Apache	Apache	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Coyote |  |  | a party of Isleteños | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across party=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **return** | gerund | a party of Isleteños *not said here* |  |  | a trading trip to the Apache country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from trip=Initial\_Location |

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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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