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title: Soon all the birds and all the four-feet were met in council in the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon all the birds and all the four-feet were met in council in the room where Sun-Arrow was; and the Mountain Lion was captain. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 73

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Soon all the birds and all the four-feet were met in council in the room where Sun-Arrow was; and the Mountain Lion was captain.

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**What happens:** meet, be · **To what, where:** birds, council, room, Lion captain

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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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77804:26:74
# text = Soon all the birds and all the four-feet were met in council in the room where Sun-Arrow was; and the Mountain Lion was captain.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
19	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · passive |  | all birds and all four feet |  | council |  | soon *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the room |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Lion captain |  |  |  |  | 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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