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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 49

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Reaching the mountain, they went to every kind of tree and cut a little piece of its bark--for they were not sure which was the oak.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** reach, go, cut, not be, be · **To what, where:** mountain, kind, little piece, oak

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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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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:pg77804:12:49
# text = Reaching the mountain, they went to every kind of tree and cut a little piece of its bark--for they were not sure which was the oak.
1	Reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund | boys *= boy* *not said here* | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  | every kind of tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to kind=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cut** | past | boys *= boy* *not said here* | a little piece of piece's bark |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the oak |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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