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description: The choked earth drank and was glad and green, and the dead crops came to life. Who acts: choked earth, dead crops. 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 tree and the pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 146

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The choked earth drank and was glad and green, and the dead crops came to life.

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**Who acts:** choked earth, dead crops · **What happens:** choke, drink, be, come · **To what, where:** life

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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 (choked earth, dead crops), 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:pg77804:10:148
# text = The choked earth drank and was glad and green, and the dead crops came to life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	choked	choke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | past | the choked earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the choked earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the choked earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | the dead crops |  |  | life |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_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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