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title: On the third day Shó-kee-ah used his strongest spell, and it rained… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the third day Shó-kee-ah used his strongest spell, and it rained great icicles, until everything was buried under them. Who acts: Shó, it. 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 dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 30

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On the third day Shó-kee-ah used his strongest spell, and it rained great icicles, until everything was buried under them.

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**Who acts:** Shó, it · **What happens:** use, rain, bury, spell · **To what, where:** strongest spell, great icicles, everything

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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 (Shó, it), 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:pg77804:21:30
# text = On the third day Shó-kee-ah used his strongest spell, and it rained great icicles, until everything was buried under them.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	Shó	Shó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	kee	kee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rained	rain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Shó | Shó's strongest spell |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient |
| 2 | **rain** | past | it | great icicles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** | past · passive |  | everything |  |  |  | under icicles *= icicle* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under they=Destination |
| 4 | **spell** |  | Shó |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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