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title: He came at last to the very top of the mountain, and there of a sudd… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He came at last to the very top of the mountain, and there of a sudden the trail ceased. Who acts: friend, sudden trail. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 15

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He came at last to the very top of the mountain, and there of a sudden the trail ceased.

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**Who acts:** friend, sudden trail · **What happens:** come, cease · **To what, where:** last

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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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, sudden trail), 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:pg77804:23:15
# text = He came at last to the very top of the mountain, and there of a sudden the trail ceased.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | friend |  |  | last |  | to the top of the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cease** | past | a sudden trail |  |  | there |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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