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title: By now the crops were dead and sere in the fields, and thirsty anima… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: By now the crops were dead and sere in the fields, and thirsty animals walked crying along the dry river. Who acts: crops, thirsty animals. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon, with its dependency
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 113

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By now the crops were dead and sere in the fields, and thirsty animals walked crying along the dry river.

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**Who acts:** crops, thirsty animals · **What happens:** be, walk, cry · **To what, where:** fields, dry river

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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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crops, thirsty animals), 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:pg77804:10:114
# text = By now the crops were dead and sere in the fields, and thirsty animals walked crying along the dry river.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sere	sere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the crops |  |  | the fields |  | sere *conj*; dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | past | thirsty animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | thirsty animals *not said here* |  |  | the dry river |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along river=Location |

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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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