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title: But each time the meal dropped to the ground, and left the pure pear… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But each time the meal dropped to the ground, and left the pure pearl undimmed and radiant as ever. Who acts: meal. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 40

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But each time the meal dropped to the ground, and left the pure pearl undimmed and radiant as ever.

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**Who acts:** meal · **What happens:** drop, leave · **To what, where:** ground, pure pearl

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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 (meal), 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:pg77804:10:40
# text = But each time the meal dropped to the ground, and left the pure pearl undimmed and radiant as ever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	undimmed	undimmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | the meal |  |  | the ground | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ground=Trajectory |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the meal *not said here* | the pure pearl |  |  |  | undimmed *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme |

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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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