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title: Then night came upon the tired earth, and the flowers and birds and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then night came upon the tired earth, and the flowers and birds and people slept their first sleep, and it was very good. Who acts: night, flowers, earth. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon, with its dependen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 30

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Then night came upon the tired earth, and the flowers and birds and people slept their first sleep, and it was very good.

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**Who acts:** night, flowers, earth · **What happens:** come, sleep, be · **To what, where:** tired earth, first sleep

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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 (night, flowers, earth), 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:pg77804:11:30
# text = Then night came upon the tired earth, and the flowers and birds and people slept their first sleep, and it was very good.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | night |  |  | the tired earth | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | the flowers and birds and people | flowers's first sleep |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sleep** |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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