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title: He put them back, and coming to town straightway told the medicine-m… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He put them back, and coming to town straightway told the medicine-men of the Black Eyes--one of the two parties here. Who acts: Desiderio, coming. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its depende
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 72

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He put them back, and coming to town straightway told the medicine-men of the Black Eyes--one of the two parties here.

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**Who acts:** Desiderio, coming · **What happens:** put back, come, tell · **To what, where:** Ogres, town straightway, medicine men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, coming), 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:pg77804:32:72
# text = He put them back, and coming to town straightway told the medicine-men of the Black Eyes--one of the two parties here.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Eyes	Eye	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put back** | past | Desiderio | Ogres *= ogre* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  | town straightway |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to straightway=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | coming |  | the medicine men of the Black Eyes |  |  | one of the two parties *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |

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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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