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title: [22] There was no town of the Lagunas there then, and only a shepher… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [22] There was no town of the Lagunas there then, and only a shepherd’s hut and corral, in which were an old Quères Indian and his grandson, tending their goats. Who acts: old Quères. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The F
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 48

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\[22\] There was no town of the Lagunas there then, and only a shepherd’s hut and corral, in which were an old Quères Indian and his grandson, tending their goats.

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**Who acts:** old Quères · **What happens:** be, tend · **To what, where:** hut, goats

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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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Quères), 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:pg77804:8:49
# text = [22] There was no town of the Lagunas there then, and only a shepherd’s hut and corral, in which were an old Quères Indian and his grandson, tending their goats.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lagunas	Laguna	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	corral	corral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Quères	Quères	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a shepherd's hut and corral |  |  |  | a shepherd *nmod:poss*; corral *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a old Quères |  |  | a shepherd's hut and corral |  | COYOTE's grandson *conj*; indian *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tend** | gerund | a old Quères *not said here* | hut's goats |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=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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