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title: Here we have been grinding our meal four days and still it will not… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Here we have been grinding our meal four days and still it will not stick, and you we did not tell till to-day. Who acts: we, meal, you. 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 tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 50

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Here we have been grinding our meal four days and still it will not stick, and you we did not tell till to-day.

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**Who acts:** we, meal, you · **What happens:** grind, not stick, not tell · **To what, where:** meal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, meal, you), 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:pg77804:10:50
# text = Here we have been grinding our meal four days and still it will not stick, and you we did not tell till to-day.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	till	till	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grind** | present · perfect · progressive | we | our meal |  | here | day |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **stick** | future | meal |  |  |  | still |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | you |  |  |  | day | we *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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