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title: And then perished all that is green; the animals fell in the brown f… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And then perished all that is green; the animals fell in the brown fields; and the gaunt people who sat to warm themselves in the sun began to die there where they sat. At last the poor old man said to his daughters: Who acts: that, animals, gaunt people, poor old man. A sentence of «The man who mar
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 55

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And then perished all that is green; the animals fell in the brown fields; and the gaunt people who sat to warm themselves in the sun began to die there where they sat. At last the poor old man said to his daughters:

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**Who acts:** that, animals, gaunt people, poor old man · **What happens:** perish, be, fall, sit, warm, begin · **To what, where:** brown fields, animals, sun, daughters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (that, animals, gaunt people, poor old man), 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:pg77804:24:55
# text = And then perished all that is green; the animals fell in the brown fields; and the gaunt people who sat to warm themselves in the sun began to die there where they sat. At last the poor old man said to his daughters:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	perished	perish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
36	At	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the animals |  |  | the brown fields |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
| 4 | **sit** | past | the gaunt people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **warm** | to-infinitive | the gaunt people *not said here* | animals *= animal* |  | the sun |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the gaunt people |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **die** | to-infinitive | the gaunt people *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the poor old man |  | Man's daughters |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient |

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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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