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title: Desiderio was not yet too old to herd his own cattle during the seas… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Desiderio was not yet too old to herd his own cattle during the season when they roam abroad; and, while thus engaged, he made a discovery which set the whole quiet village agog, though no other outsider ever heard of it. Who acts: Desiderio, eyes, discovery, other outsider. A sentence of «The man w
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 63

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Desiderio was not yet too old to herd his own cattle during the season when they roam abroad; and, while thus engaged, he made a discovery which set the whole quiet village agog, though no other outsider ever heard of it.

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**Who acts:** Desiderio, eyes, discovery, other outsider · **What happens:** not be, herd, roam, engage, make, set · **To what, where:** own cattle, discovery, whole quiet village agog

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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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiderio, eyes, discovery, other outsider), 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:pg77804:32:63
# text = Desiderio was not yet too old to herd his own cattle during the season when they roam abroad; and, while thus engaged, he made a discovery which set the whole quiet village agog, though no other outsider ever heard of it.
1	Desiderio	Desiderio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	herd	herd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	agog	agog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	outsider	outsider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Desiderio |  |  |  | yet | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **herd** | to-infinitive | Desiderio *not said here* | Desiderio's own cattle |  |  | season |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient |
| 3 | **roam** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **engage** | past | Desiderio *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | past | Desiderio | a discovery |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discovery=Product |
| 6 | **set** | past | a discovery | the whole quiet village agog |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient agog=Result |
| 7 | **hear** | past | no other outsider |  |  |  | ever | of agog | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |

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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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