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title: One day there came a snow that covered the ground so that one could… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day there came a snow that covered the ground so that one could easily track rabbits, and taking her bow and arrows she started off to hunt. Who acts: snow, one, Governor. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Quères Di
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 8

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One day there came a snow that covered the ground so that one could easily track rabbits, and taking her bow and arrows she started off to hunt.

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**Who acts:** snow, one, Governor · **What happens:** come, cover, track, take, start off, hunt · **To what, where:** snow, ground, rabbits, bow

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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 Quères Diana. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, one, Governor), 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:pg77804:29:8
# text = One day there came a snow that covered the ground so that one could easily track rabbits, and taking her bow and arrows she started off to hunt.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	track	track	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | a snow |  | there | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snow=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | past | a snow | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination |
| 3 | **track** | could | that one | rabbits |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | gerund |  | Governor's bow and arrows |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 5 | **start off** | past | Governor |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Governor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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