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title: Once upon a time, when the Wolf and the Deer were friends, there wer… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time, when the Wolf and the Deer were friends, there were two neighbors in the country beyond the Rio Puerco, not far from where the pueblo of Laguna (a Quères town) now is. Who acts: Wolf, two neighbors. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 19

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Once upon a time, when the Wolf and the Deer were friends, there were two neighbors in the country beyond the Rio Puerco, not far from where the pueblo of Laguna (a Quères town) now is.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, two neighbors · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** friends, country

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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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, two neighbors), 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:pg77804:27:20
# text = Once upon a time, when the Wolf and the Deer were friends, there were two neighbors in the country beyond the Rio Puerco, not far from where the pueblo of Laguna (a Quères town) now is.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Puerco	Puerco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Laguna	Laguna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Quères	Quères	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Wolf and the Deer | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | two neighbors |  |  | the country beyond the Rio Puerco; there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | 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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