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title: In a moment the devils began to arrive singly or in pairs; and at la… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment the devils began to arrive singly or in pairs; and at last came the old devil--the very one who had played the trick on Good. Who acts: devils, one. 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 Su
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 43

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In a moment the devils began to arrive singly or in pairs; and at last came the old devil--the very one who had played the trick on Good.

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**Who acts:** devils, one · **What happens:** begin, arrive, come, play · **To what, where:** old devil, last, trick, Good

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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 (devils, one), 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:pg77804:25:43
# text = In a moment the devils began to arrive singly or in pairs; and at last came the old devil--the very one who had played the trick on Good.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	singly	singly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Good	Good	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the devils |  |  |  | moment |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **arrive** | to-infinitive | the devils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | singly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the devils *not said here* | the old devil |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location devil=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | past · perfect | the one | the trick |  | Good |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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