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title: Agostin, her elder son, was a famous hunter, and very often went to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Agostin, her elder son, was a famous hunter, and very often went to the mountains with a friend of his who had an evil spirit--though Agostin was not aware of that. Who acts: Agostin. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The D
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 9

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Agostin, her elder son, was a famous hunter, and very often went to the mountains with a friend of his who had an evil spirit--though Agostin was not aware of that.

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**Who acts:** Agostin · **What happens:** be, go, not be · **To what, where:** famous hunter, mountains

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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), 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:pg77804:23:9
# text = Agostin, her elder son, was a famous hunter, and very often went to the mountains with a friend of his who had an evil spirit--though Agostin was not aware of that.
1	Agostin	Agostin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	Agostin	Agostin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Agostin | a famous hunter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Agostin *not said here* |  |  | the mountains |  | with a friend of friend's evil spirit; often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | Agostin |  |  |  |  | of that; aware *property* | tree rules |

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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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