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title: As it came trundling to them, both grasped it at the same instant; a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As it came trundling to them, both grasped it at the same instant; and lo! instead of the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, there were two great snakes, with tears rolling down ugly faces. Who acts: hoop, two great snakes, tears. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 159

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As it came trundling to them, both grasped it at the same instant; and lo! instead of the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, there were two great snakes, with tears rolling down ugly faces.

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**Who acts:** hoop, two great snakes, tears · **What happens:** come, trundle, grasp, be, roll down · **To what, where:** sisters, hoop, same instant, Yellow Corn Maidens, ugly faces

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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 (hoop, two great snakes, tears), 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:pg77804:10:161
# text = As it came trundling to them, both grasped it at the same instant; and lo! instead of the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, there were two great snakes, with tears rolling down ugly faces.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	trundling	trundle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc:preconj	_	_
9	grasped	grasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	appos	_	_
36	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | hoop |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trundle** | gerund | hoop *not said here* |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination |
| 3 | **grasp** | past | hoop *not said here* | hoop |  | the same instant |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past | two great snakes | the Yellow Corn Maidens *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot maiden=Theme |
| 5 | **roll down** | gerund | tears *not said here* | ugly faces |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Agent |

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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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