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title: After traveling a long way in the dark, they came to a huge room in… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: After traveling a long way in the dark, they came to a huge room in which corn and melons and pumpkins were growing abundantly. Who acts: Twins, corn. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins, with its dependency tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 77

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After traveling a long way in the dark, they came to a huge room in which corn and melons and pumpkins were growing abundantly.

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**Who acts:** Twins, corn · **What happens:** travel, come, grow · **To what, where:** long way, dark, huge room

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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 Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twins, corn), 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:pg77804:31:77
# text = After traveling a long way in the dark, they came to a huge room in which corn and melons and pumpkins were growing abundantly.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	traveling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	18	det	_	_
18	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	melons	melon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl:relcl	_	_
25	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund | Twins *= twin* *not said here* | a long way |  | the dark |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | Twins *= twin* |  |  | a huge room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **grow** | past · progressive | which corn and melons and pumpkins |  |  |  |  | abundantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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