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title: The Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob went back to Isleta, where he l… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob went back to Isleta, where he lived to a ripe old age. Who acts: Young Man, Man. 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 the pragmatic
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 72

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The Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob went back to Isleta, where he lived to a ripe old age.

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**Who acts:** Young Man, Man · **What happens:** go back, live · **To what, where:** Isleta

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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 (Young Man, 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:pg77804:22:72
# text = The Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob went back to Isleta, where he lived to a ripe old age.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Embraces	embrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Corncob	corncob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | the Young Man |  | Isleta |  |  | Who *nsubj*; Embraces and a Corncob *nsubj* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to isleta=Result |
| 2 | **live** | past | Man |  |  |  | to a ripe old age |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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