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title: The string was soon untied, and Tái-oh got astride the neck of the g… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The string was soon untied, and Tái-oh got astride the neck of the great bird, which rose up into the air as though it carried no weight at all. Who acts: string, Tái, great bird. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 26

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The string was soon untied, and Tái-oh got astride the neck of the great bird, which rose up into the air as though it carried no weight at all.

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**Who acts:** string, Tái, great bird · **What happens:** be, get, rise up, carry · **To what, where:** air, weight, all

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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 Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (string, Tái, great bird), 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:pg77804:20:26
# text = The string was soon untied, and Tái-oh got astride the neck of the great bird, which rose up into the air as though it carried no weight at all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	untied	untied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	Tái	Tái	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	astride	astride	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the string |  |  |  |  | soon, untied *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | participle | Tái |  |  |  |  | astride the neck of the great bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **rise up** | past | the great bird |  |  | the air |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **carry** | past | string | no weight |  | all |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=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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