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title: It began to rain violently, and the water poured down through the ro… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It began to rain violently, and the water poured down through the roof-door, and the lightning stuck its tongue in. Who acts: third, water, lightning. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, with its depend
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 104

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It began to rain violently, and the water poured down through the roof-door, and the lightning stuck its tongue in.

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**Who acts:** third, water, lightning · **What happens:** begin, pour down, stick · **To what, where:** rain, roof door, tongue

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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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, water, lightning), 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:pg77804:23:104
# text = It began to rain violently, and the water poured down through the roof-door, and the lightning stuck its tongue in.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | third | rain |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pour down** | participle | the water |  |  | the roof door |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Location |
| 3 | **stick** | past | the lightning | third's tongue |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=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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