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title: In a little while the younger brother arrived, with his new clothes… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a little while the younger brother arrived, with his new clothes and moccasins torn to shreds; for he had traveled far in a rough country, without meeting a soul from whom to ask advice. Who acts: younger brother, brother. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 87

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In a little while the younger brother arrived, with his new clothes and moccasins torn to shreds; for he had traveled far in a rough country, without meeting a soul from whom to ask advice.

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**Who acts:** younger brother, brother · **What happens:** arrive, tear, travel, meet, ask · **To what, where:** little, new clothes, shreds, rough country, soul, 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 (younger brother, brother), 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:pg77804:23:87
# text = In a little while the younger brother arrived, with his new clothes and moccasins torn to shreds; for he had traveled far in a rough country, without meeting a soul from whom to ask advice.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	shreds	shred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	traveled	travel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
38	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the younger brother |  |  | a little |  | with brother's new clothes and moccasins | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tear** | participle |  | brother's new clothes and moccasins *not said here* |  | shreds |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shred=Destination |
| 3 | **travel** | past · perfect | brother |  |  | a rough country |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory |
| 4 | **meet** | gerund | brother *not said here* | a soul |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | brother *not said here* | advice |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |

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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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