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title: When he reached home it was the afternoon of the appointed day, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he reached home it was the afternoon of the appointed day, and in the evening the medicine-making contest for life or death was to come. Who acts: heart, way, making contest. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drown
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 86

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When he reached home it was the afternoon of the appointed day, and in the evening the medicine-making contest for life or death was to come.

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**Who acts:** heart, way, making contest · **What happens:** reach, be, appoint, make, come · **To what, where:** afternoon

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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 (heart, way, making contest), 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:pg77804:23:86
# text = When he reached home it was the afternoon of the appointed day, and in the evening the medicine-making contest for life or death was to come.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | way | the afternoon |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | medicine *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **come** | past | the making contest for life or death |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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