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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 26

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The girls ran out from hundreds of gray adobe houses to catch every word; and when the crier had passed on, they ran back into the store-rooms and began to ransack the corn-bins for the biggest, evenest, and most perfect ears.

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**Who acts:** girls · **What happens:** run out, catch, pass on, run back, begin, ransack · **To what, where:** most perfect ears, hundreds, word, crier, store rooms, corn bins

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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 (girls), 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:pg77804:10:26
# text = The girls ran out from hundreds of gray adobe houses to catch every word; and when the crier had passed on, they ran back into the store-rooms and began to ransack the corn-bins for the biggest, evenest, and most perfect ears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	ransack	ransack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	evenest	even	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	49	amod	_	_
48	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | past | the girls | most perfect ears |  | hundreds of gray adobe houses |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hundred=Trajectory |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | the girls *not said here* | every word |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **pass on** | past · perfect · passive |  | the crier |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **run back** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | into the store rooms *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result |
| 5 | **begin** | past | girls *= girl* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **ransack** | to-infinitive | girls *= girl* *not said here* | the corn bins |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bin=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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