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title: The birds flew always, the flowers never shut, the young people danc… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The birds flew always, the flowers never shut, the young people danced and sang, and none knew how to rest. Who acts: birds, young people, none. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon, with its dependency tree an
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 10

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The birds flew always, the flowers never shut, the young people danced and sang, and none knew how to rest.

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**Who acts:** birds, young people, none · **What happens:** fly, dance, sing, know, rest · **To what, where:** flowers

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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 Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, young people, none), 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:pg77804:11:10
# text = The birds flew always, the flowers never shut, the young people danced and sang, and none knew how to rest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
20	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the birds | the flowers |  |  |  | always *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | past | the young people |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the young people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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