--- title: And soon the crops grew yellow in the fields, and the springs failed… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: And soon the crops grew yellow in the fields, and the springs failed, and the animals walked like weary shadows; for Kahp-too-óo-yoo, he who had the power of the clouds, was gone, and there was no rain. Who acts: crops, springs, animals, Kahp. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crops, springs, animals, Kahp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:24:54 # text = And soon the crops grew yellow in the fields, and the springs failed, and the animals walked like weary shadows; for Kahp-too-óo-yoo, he who had the power of the clouds, was gone, and there was no rain. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 springs spring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ 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 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Kahp Kahp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 óo óo NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 yoo yoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 47 expl _ _ 47 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 parataxis _ _ 48 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 49 det _ _ 49 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the crops | óo yoo for Kahp | | | | soon, yellow *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fail** | past | the springs | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **walk** | past | the animals | | | | | like weary shadows | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | Kahp | the power of the clouds | | | | óo yoo for Kahp *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | past | no rain | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/55/) - ↑ back to [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/)