--- title: Trembling, they listened; and again the song came floating to them,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Trembling, they listened; and again the song came floating to them, so soft, so sad that they wept--as to this day their people weep when a white-haired old man, filled with the memories of Kahp-too-óo-yoo, sings that plaintive melody. Who acts: brothers, song, people, white haired old man. 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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 (brothers, song, people, white haired old man), 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:pg77804:24:72 # text = Trembling, they listened; and again the song came floating to them, so soft, so sad that they wept--as to this day their people weep when a white-haired old man, filled with the memories of Kahp-too-óo-yoo, sings that plaintive melody. 1 Trembling tremble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 weep weep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 31 when when SCONJ WRB _ 52 mark _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 33 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Kahp Kahp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 too too ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 óo óo NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 yoo yoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 52 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 53 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 55 det _ _ 54 plaintive plaintive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 melody melody NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tremble** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **listen** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | the song | | | | again | | tree rules | | 4 | **float** | gerund | the song *not said here* | | brothers *= brother* | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination | | 5 | **weep** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **weep** | present | brothers's people | | | | day | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **fill** | participle | | a white haired old man *not said here* | | | | with the memories of Kahp óo yoo | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with memory=Instrument | | 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | a white haired old man | that plaintive melody | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location melody=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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/71/) - ↑ back to [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/)