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title: The people could raise no crops, for the bitter cold killed all that… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The people could raise no crops, for the bitter cold killed all that they planted, and nothing would grow but the thorny cactus. Who acts: people, bitter cold, nothing. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 12

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The people could raise no crops, for the bitter cold killed all that they planted, and nothing would grow but the thorny cactus.

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**Who acts:** people, bitter cold, nothing · **What happens:** raise, kill, plant, grow · **To what, where:** crops

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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 North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, bitter cold, nothing), 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:pg77804:21:12
# text = The people could raise no crops, for the bitter cold killed all that they planted, and nothing would grow but the thorny cactus.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cactus	cactus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | could | the people | no crops |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the bitter cold |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **plant** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | would | nothing |  |  |  |  | the thorny cactus *conj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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