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title: Whatever person they met, or to whatever village they came, they wer… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whatever person they met, or to whatever village they came, they were to seek advice. Who acts: men. 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 of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 36

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Whatever person they met, or to whatever village they came, they were to seek advice.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** meet, come, seek · **To what, where:** person, village, advice

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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 (men), 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:pg77804:23:36
# text = Whatever person they met, or to whatever village they came, they were to seek advice.
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | men *= man* | person  Whatever *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | men *= man* | whatever village *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location village=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | past | men *= man* | advice |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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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