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title: The Rio Grande itself frequently disappears in September between cer… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rio Grande itself frequently disappears in September between certain points in its course in sandy New Mexico; and within ten miles below Isleta I have seen its bed bone-dry. Who acts: Rio Grande, I, bed. 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 94

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The Rio Grande itself frequently disappears in September between certain points in its course in sandy New Mexico; and within ten miles below Isleta I have seen its bed bone-dry.

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**Who acts:** Rio Grande, I, bed · **What happens:** disappear, see, dry

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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 (Rio Grande, I, bed), 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:pg77804:25:94
# text = The Rio Grande itself frequently disappears in September between certain points in its course in sandy New Mexico; and within ten miles below Isleta I have seen its bed bone-dry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Grande	Grande	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	appos	_	_
5	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	disappears	disappear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	sandy	Sandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	within	within	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
24	below	below	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	dry	dry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | present | the Rio Grande |  |  |  | september | between certain points in Grande's course in sandy New Mexico; frequently *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | within ten miles below Isleta | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **dry** |  | bed |  |  |  |  | Grande *nmod:poss* | 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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