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title: They held a _junta_; and after mature deliberation decided to go and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They held a _junta_; and after mature deliberation decided to go and get the masks. Who acts: Ogres. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 73

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They held a \_junta\_; and after mature deliberation decided to go and get the masks.

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**Who acts:** Ogres · **What happens:** hold, decide, go, get · **To what, where:** \_ junta, masks

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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 (Ogres), 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:pg77804:32:73
# text = They held a _junta_; and after mature deliberation decided to go and get the masks.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	junta	junta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	mature	mature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	deliberation	deliberation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	masks	mask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | Ogres *= ogre* | a \_ junta |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent junta=Theme |
| 2 | **decide** | past | Ogres *= ogre* *not said here* |  |  |  | after mature deliberation |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ogres *= ogre* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | Ogres *= ogre* *not said here* | the masks |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mask=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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