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title: When Kahp-too-óo-yoo willed it, the glad rains fell, and made the dr… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Kahp-too-óo-yoo willed it, the glad rains fell, and made the dry fields laugh in green; and without him no one could bring water from the sky. Who acts: Kahp, glad rains, dry fields, one. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lumm
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 4

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When Kahp-too-óo-yoo willed it, the glad rains fell, and made the dry fields laugh in green; and without him no one could bring water from the sky.

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**Who acts:** Kahp, glad rains, dry fields, one · **What happens:** will, fall, make, laugh, bring · **To what, where:** yoo, water, sky

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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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kahp, glad rains, dry fields, one), 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:pg77804:24:4
# text = When Kahp-too-óo-yoo willed it, the glad rains fell, and made the dry fields laugh in green; and without him no one could bring water from the sky.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	óo	óo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	yoo	yoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	list	_	_
9	willed	will	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **will** | past | Kahp  óo yoo | yoo |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the glad rains |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | the glad rains *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | present | the dry fields |  |  |  |  | in green | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in green=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | could | no one | water |  | the sky |  | without Kahp | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from sky=Initial\_Location |

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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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