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title: There they tried him with the _weer_ and the fire, just as the Trues… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There they tried him with the _weer_ and the fire, just as the Trues of the East had done, but he proved himself a man, and they gave him the ice. Who acts: Trues, Friend. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 106

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There they tried him with the \_weer\_ and the fire, just as the Trues of the East had done, but he proved himself a man, and they gave him the ice.

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**Who acts:** Trues, Friend · **What happens:** try, do, prove, give · **To what, where:** Friend, ice

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trues, Friend), 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:pg77804:19:107
# text = There they tried him with the _weer_ and the fire, just as the Trues of the East had done, but he proved himself a man, and they gave him the ice.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	weer	wee	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Trues *= true* | Friend |  | there |  | with the \_; the fire *conj* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Patient with \_=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | the Trues of the East |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prove** | past | Friend | Friend |  |  |  | a man *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme man=Attribute |
| 4 | **give** | past | Trues *= true* | the ice | Friend |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ice=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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