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title: But she paid no attention to them, and her sons continued their word… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But she paid no attention to them, and her sons continued their words, and the water kept pouring in until it touched the very ceiling. Who acts: mother, sons, water, attention. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drownin
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 111

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But she paid no attention to them, and her sons continued their words, and the water kept pouring in until it touched the very ceiling.

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**Who acts:** mother, sons, water, attention · **What happens:** pay, continue, keep, pour in, touch, word · **To what, where:** attention, children, words, ceiling

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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 (mother, sons, water, attention), 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:pg77804:23:111
# text = But she paid no attention to them, and her sons continued their words, and the water kept pouring in until it touched the very ceiling.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | mother | no attention | children *= child* |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 2 | **continue** | past | mother's sons | sons's words |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | the water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pour in** | gerund | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 5 | **touch** | past | attention | the ceiling |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ceiling=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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