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title: Each girl carried in her left hand a little jar of meal; and as they… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each girl carried in her left hand a little jar of meal; and as they passed the door one by one, each took from the jar a handful and threw it against the magic dipper. Who acts: girl, girls, each. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 39

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Each girl carried in her left hand a little jar of meal; and as they passed the door one by one, each took from the jar a handful and threw it against the magic dipper.

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**Who acts:** girl, girls, each · **What happens:** carry, pass, take, throw · **To what, where:** little jar, left hand, door, handful, jar, magic dipper

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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 (girl, girls, each), 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:pg77804:10:39
# text = Each girl carried in her left hand a little jar of meal; and as they passed the door one by one, each took from the jar a handful and threw it against the magic dipper.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	against	against	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	dipper	dipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | each girl | a little jar of meal |  | Shee's left hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jar=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **pass** | past | girls *= girl* | the door |  |  |  | by one | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent door=Theme by one=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | past | each | a handful |  | the jar |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from jar=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **throw** | past | each *not said here* | door |  | the magic dipper |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme against dipper=Destination |

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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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