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title: Next day the people all gathered to see the trial of strength betwee… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day the people all gathered to see the trial of strength between the two wizards. Who acts: people. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 26

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Next day the people all gathered to see the trial of strength between the two wizards.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** gather, see, try · **To what, where:** trial, strength

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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), 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:pg77804:21:26
# text = Next day the people all gathered to see the trial of strength between the two wizards.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the people |  |  |  | day | all *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | the trial of strength between the two wizards |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trial=Stimulus |
| 3 | **try** |  |  | strength between the two wizards |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act transitive»: of=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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