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title: But when the boy knocked, she rose and welcomed him kindly and gave… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the boy knocked, she rose and welcomed him kindly and gave him all there was in the house to eat--a wee bowl of soup with a patched-up snowbird in it. Who acts: boy, Mole. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accu
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 44

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But when the boy knocked, she rose and welcomed him kindly and gave him all there was in the house to eat--a wee bowl of soup with a patched-up snowbird in it.

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**Who acts:** boy, Mole · **What happens:** knock, rise, welcome, give, be, eat · **To what, where:** boy, house

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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 (boy, Mole), 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:pg77804:19:45
# text = But when the boy knocked, she rose and welcomed him kindly and gave him all there was in the house to eat--a wee bowl of soup with a patched-up snowbird in it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	patched	patch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
35	snowbird	snowbird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | past | Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **welcome** | past | Mole *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | Mole *not said here* |  | boy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the house and a wee bowl of soup with a patched snowbird in house; there |  | a wee bowl of soup with a patched snowbird in house *conj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **patch up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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