--- title: In the mean time the Fawns had come to the bank of the Rio Grande, a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: In the mean time the Fawns had come to the bank of the Rio Grande, and there was _P’ah-chah-hlóo-hli_, the Beaver, hard at work cutting down a tree with his big teeth. Who acts: Fawns, P’ah chah hlóo, work. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fawns, P’ah chah hlóo, work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:27:105 # text = In the mean time the Fawns had come to the bank of the Rio Grande, and there was _P’ah-chah-hlóo-hli_, the Beaver, hard at work cutting down a tree with his big teeth. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Fawns fawn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Rio Rio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Grande Grande PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 P’ah P'ah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 chah chah NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 hlóo hlóo NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 hli hli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Beaver Beaver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the Fawns | | | the bank of the Rio Grande | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **be** | past | P’ah chah hlóo | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cut down** | gerund | work *not said here* | a tree | | | | with hlóo's big teeth | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with tooth=Instrument | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/104/) - ↑ back to [The Revenge of the Fawns](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/)