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description: When he had finished the song, all could see that the flower had begun to grow, so that it lifted the upper _manta_ a little. Who acts: Scarcely, all, flower, song. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 137

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When he had finished the song, all could see that the flower had begun to grow, so that it lifted the upper \_manta\_ a little.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely, all, flower, song · **What happens:** finish, see, begin, grow, lift · **To what, where:** song, upper manta

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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 (Scarcely, all, flower, song), 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:pg77804:10:139
# text = When he had finished the song, all could see that the flower had begun to grow, so that it lifted the upper _manta_ a little.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	manta	manta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | Scarcely | the song |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector song=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** | could | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** | past · perfect | the flower |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the flower *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lift** | past | song | the upper manta |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manta=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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