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title: “One, two, three!” he counted; and at the word “three!” sent the hoo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “One, two, three!” he counted; and at the word “three!” sent the hoop rolling down to them. Who acts: Man, word, hoop. 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 pragmati
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 66

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“One, two, three!” he counted; and at the word “three!” sent the hoop rolling down to them.

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**Who acts:** Man, word, hoop · **What happens:** count, send, roll down · **To what, where:** One, hoop, sisters

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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, word, hoop), 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:pg77804:22:66
# text = “One, two, three!” he counted; and at the word “three!” sent the hoop rolling down to them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	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 | **count** | past | Man | One |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send** | past | the word | the hoop |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Theme |
| 3 | **roll down** | gerund | the hoop *not said here* |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination |

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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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