--- title: All the next day, and the next, and the next, they ground it over an… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: All the next day, and the next, and the next, they ground it over and over again, until it grew finer than ever flour was before; and every girl felt sure that her meal would stick to the _omate_ of the handsome young weaver. Who acts: kernels, corn, flour, girl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kernels, corn, flour, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:10:28 # text = All the next day, and the next, and the next, they ground it over and over again, until it grew finer than ever flour was before; and every girl felt sure that her meal would stick to the _omate_ of the handsome young weaver. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 over over ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 over over ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 finer fine ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 26 than than SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 advmod _ _ 28 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 before before ADV RB _ 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 omate omate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 _ _ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 49 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ground over** | | kernels *= kernel* | | | | again | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | past | corn | | | | day | fine *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | flour | | | | | before *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | past | every girl | | | | | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **stick** | would | crier's meal | | | | | to the omate \_ of the handsome young weaver | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to \_=Co-Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/29/) - ↑ back to [The Man Who Married the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/)