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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 61

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Agostin told the whole story of the witches’ challenge, and of how he had gone out to seek advice, and of how the little bird had brought him here, and the guard said:

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**Who acts:** Agostin, southeast, guard, witches · **What happens:** tell, go out, seek, bring, say, challenge · **To what, where:** whole story, advice, little bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Agostin, southeast, guard, witches), 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:pg77804:23:61
# text = Agostin told the whole story of the witches’ challenge, and of how he had gone out to seek advice, and of how the little bird had brought him here, and the guard said:
1	Agostin	Agostin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Agostin | the whole story of the witches's challenge |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **go out** | past · perfect | southeast |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | southeast *not said here* | advice |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the little bird |  | here |  | southeast *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the guard |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **challenge** |  | the witches |  |  |  |  |  | nom challenge «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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