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title: Now it happened that this house was the place where all the devils o… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened that this house was the place where all the devils of that country used to meet at night; and before Good went to sleep he heard noises of the devils coming. Who acts: it, house, devils, Good. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charl
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 41

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Now it happened that this house was the place where all the devils of that country used to meet at night; and before Good went to sleep he heard noises of the devils coming.

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**Who acts:** it, house, devils, Good · **What happens:** happen, be, use, meet, go, hear · **To what, where:** place, sleep, noises

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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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, house, devils, Good), 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:pg77804:25:41
# text = Now it happened that this house was the place where all the devils of that country used to meet at night; and before Good went to sleep he heard noises of the devils coming.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	Good	Good	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this house | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | past | all devils of that country |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | all devils of that country *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | Good |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **hear** | past | Good | noises of the devils |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 7 | **come** | gerund | the devils *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **noise** |  | the devils |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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