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title: She soon found their tracks leading away to the south, and began to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She soon found their tracks leading away to the south, and began to run very swiftly in pursuit. Who acts: tooth. 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 pragmatics of ev
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 69

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She soon found their tracks leading away to the south, and began to run very swiftly in pursuit.

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**Who acts:** tooth · **What happens:** find, lead away, begin, run · **To what, where:** tracks, pursuit

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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 (tooth), 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:pg77804:27:70
# text = She soon found their tracks leading away to the south, and began to run very swiftly in pursuit.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | tooth | Wolf's tracks |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic |
| 2 | **lead away** | gerund | tooth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the south; away *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to south=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | tooth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run** | to-infinitive | tooth *not said here* |  |  | pursuit |  | swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Trajectory |

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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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