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title: They had very good houses of adobe, just such as we live in now, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They had very good houses of adobe, just such as we live in now, and lived like real people in every way. Who acts: fawns, we. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 21

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They had very good houses of adobe, just such as we live in now, and lived like real people in every way.

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**Who acts:** fawns, we · **What happens:** have, live · **To what, where:** good houses, way

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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 (fawns, we), 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:pg77804:27:22
# text = They had very good houses of adobe, just such as we live in now, and lived like real people in every way.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	fixed	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | fawns *= fawn* | good houses of adobe |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in now=Location |
| 3 | **live** | past | fawns *= fawn* *not said here* |  |  | every way |  | like real people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |

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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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