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title: Once upon a time there lived in one of those villages (so runs the s… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there lived in one of those villages (so runs the story) a young Indian named Kahp-too-óo-yoo, the Corn-stalk Young Man. Who acts: Kahp. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, wi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 2

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Once upon a time there lived in one of those villages (so runs the story) a young Indian named Kahp-too-óo-yoo, the Corn-stalk Young Man.

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**Who acts:** Kahp · **What happens:** live, run, be · **To what, where:** story, young Indian óo yoo

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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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kahp), 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:pg77804:24:2
# text = Once upon a time there lived in one of those villages (so runs the story) a young Indian named Kahp-too-óo-yoo, the Corn-stalk Young Man.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
20	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
21	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	cop	_	_
22	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	óo	óo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	yoo	yoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
34	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | there | time | in one of that villages; once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location |
| 2 | **run** | present |  | the story |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | participle | Kahp | a young Indian óo yoo |  |  |  | the Corn stalk *parataxis* | 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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