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description: When he sang this and touched the heaviest stone, it rose up from the ground, and went over his head and fell far behind him. Who acts: heh, ay. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Stone-moving Song, with its dependency t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 6

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When he sang this and touched the heaviest stone, it rose up from the ground, and went over his head and fell far behind him.

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**Who acts:** heh, ay · **What happens:** sing, touch, rise up, go, fall · **To what, where:** this, heaviest stone, ground, head

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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 Stone-moving Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heh, ay), 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:pg77804:13:7
# text = When he sang this and touched the heaviest stone, it rose up from the ground, and went over his head and fell far behind him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | heh | this |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | past | heh *not said here* | the heaviest stone |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **rise up** | past | ay |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **go** | past | ay *not said here* |  |  | heh's head |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **fall** | past | ay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind heh; far *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=Location |

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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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