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description: Shelling the choicest, each took her few handfuls of kernels to the sloping _metate_,[33] and with the _mano_, or hand-stone, scrubbed the grist up and down, and up and down, till the hard corn was a soft, blue meal. Who acts: each, hard corn. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other P
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 27

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Shelling the choicest, each took her few handfuls of kernels to the sloping \_metate\_,\[33\] and with the \_mano\_, or hand-stone, scrubbed the grist up and down, and up and down, till the hard corn was a soft, blue meal.

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**Who acts:** each, hard corn · **What happens:** shell, take, slope, scrub, be · **To what, where:** choicest, few handfuls, sloping metate, grist, soft blue meal

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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 (each, hard corn), 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:pg77804:10:27
# text = Shelling the choicest, each took her few handfuls of kernels to the sloping _metate_,[33] and with the _mano_, or hand-stone, scrubbed the grist up and down, and up and down, till the hard corn was a soft, blue meal.
1	Shelling	shell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	kernels	kernel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	compound	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	metate	metate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	mano	mano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	grist	grist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	up	up	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	up	up	ADV	RB	_	34	advcl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	down	down	ADV	RB	_	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
46	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
52	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
54	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shell** | gerund | each *not said here* | the choicest |  |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past | each | crier's few handfuls of kernels |  | the sloping metate |  | hand stone *obl*; 33 and the mano *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent handful=Theme to metate=Destination |
| 3 | **slope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **scrub** | past | each *not said here* | the grist |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent grist=Source |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the hard corn | a soft blue meal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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