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title: Then the thirsty fields no longer cry for water, the irrigating-ditc… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the thirsty fields no longer cry for water, the irrigating-ditches have ceased to gnaw at their banks, and the men are often at leisure. Who acts: thirsty fields, men. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 67

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Then the thirsty fields no longer cry for water, the irrigating-ditches have ceased to gnaw at their banks, and the men are often at leisure.

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**Who acts:** thirsty fields, men · **What happens:** cry, irrigate, cease, gnaw, be · **To what, where:** irrigating ditches, leisure

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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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirsty fields, men), 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:pg77804:2:67
# text = Then the thirsty fields no longer cry for water, the irrigating-ditches have ceased to gnaw at their banks, and the men are often at leisure.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	irrigating	irrigate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | the thirsty fields |  |  |  | then | for water; long *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient |
| 2 | **irrigate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cease** | present · perfect · passive |  | the irrigating ditches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gnaw** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at ditches's banks | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at bank=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | the men |  |  | leisure |  | often *property* | 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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