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description: So he went down the hill and waited, and the girls sent the bright wheel rolling toward him. Who acts: Man, girls. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 29

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So he went down the hill and waited, and the girls sent the bright wheel rolling toward him.

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**Who acts:** Man, girls · **What happens:** go down, wait, send, roll · **To what, where:** hill, bright wheel

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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 Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, girls), 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:pg77804:22:29
# text = So he went down the hill and waited, and the girls sent the bright wheel rolling toward him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | Man | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent |
| 2 | **wait** | past | Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | the girls | the bright wheel |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | gerund | the girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward Man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward he=Trajectory |

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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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