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title: And even now, when we dig in that little hill on the other side of t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And even now, when we dig in that little hill on the other side of the _charco_ (pool), we find charred corn-cobs, where our forefathers burned the witch-people of the yellow village. Who acts: we, forefathers. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Cha
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 88

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And even now, when we dig in that little hill on the other side of the \_charco\_ (pool), we find charred corn-cobs, where our forefathers burned the witch-people of the yellow village.

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**Who acts:** we, forefathers · **What happens:** dig, find, char, burn · **To what, where:** little hill, charred corn cobs, witch people

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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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, forefathers), 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:pg77804:3:90
# text = And even now, when we dig in that little hill on the other side of the _charco_ (pool), we find charred corn-cobs, where our forefathers burned the witch-people of the yellow village.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	charco	charco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	discourse	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	charred	char	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
28	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	cobs	cob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | present | we |  |  | that little hill on the other side of the charco | now | pool *parataxis* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in hill=Location |
| 2 | **find** | present | we | charred corn cobs |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cob=Topic |
| 3 | **char** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **burn** | past | our forefathers | the witch people of the yellow village |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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