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description: Again and again he sang; and when he had finished for the fourth time, it was plain to all that a human form lay between the two _mantas_. Who acts: Scarcely, gourd, human form. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 139

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Again and again he sang; and when he had finished for the fourth time, it was plain to all that a human form lay between the two \_mantas\_.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely, gourd, human form · **What happens:** sing, finish, be, lie · **To what, where:** two mantas

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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, gourd, human form), 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:pg77804:10:141
# text = Again and again he sang; and when he had finished for the fourth time, it was plain to all that a human form lay between the two _mantas_.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	mantas	manta	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Scarcely |  |  |  | again; again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **finish** | past · perfect | Scarcely |  |  |  | time |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | gourd |  |  |  |  | to all; plain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | past | a human form |  |  | the two mantas |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between manta=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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