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title: When you come to the ladder, you must chew some of the herbs and spi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you come to the ladder, you must chew some of the herbs and spit the juice on the ladder, which will at once become smooth for you.” Who acts: you, ladder. 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 Ea
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 45

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When you come to the ladder, you must chew some of the herbs and spit the juice on the ladder, which will at once become smooth for you.”

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**Who acts:** you, ladder · **What happens:** come, chew, spit, become · **To what, where:** ladder, some, juice

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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 (you, ladder), 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:pg77804:20:45
# text = When you come to the ladder, you must chew some of the herbs and spit the juice on the ladder, which will at once become smooth for you.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	chew	chew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	advmod	_	_
27	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | you |  |  | the ladder |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ladder=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **chew** | must | you | some of the herbs |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 3 | **spit** | present | you *not said here* | the juice |  | the ladder |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent juice=Theme on ladder=Destination |
| 4 | **become** | future | the ladder |  |  |  |  | once, smooth *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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