--- title: But when we come to the top of the mountain, and I say, ‘We are at t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: But when we come to the top of the mountain, and I say, ‘We are at the top,’ you must say, ‘No, we are down in the mountain--at the bottom of it.’ Who acts: we, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:23:50 # text = But when we come to the top of the mountain, and I say, ‘We are at the top,’ you must say, ‘No, we are down in the mountain--at the bottom of it.’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 33 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 down down ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | we | | | the top of the mountain | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | We | | | the top | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | must | you | | | the bottom of bottom | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | we | | | the mountain | | down *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/23/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/23/51/) - ↑ back to [The Drowning of Pecos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/23/)