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description: The good man let his servants rest on Sunday, but the bad made his work every day, and did not even give them time to smoke. Who acts: good man, servants, bad, man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Kee
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 15

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The good man let his servants rest on Sunday, but the bad made his work every day, and did not even give them time to smoke.

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**Who acts:** good man, servants, bad, man · **What happens:** let, rest, make, not give, smoke, work · **To what, where:** work, servants

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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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good man, servants, bad, 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:pg77804:25:15
# text = The good man let his servants rest on Sunday, but the bad made his work every day, and did not even give them time to smoke.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | the good man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | present | man's servants |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | the bad | man's work |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product |
| 4 | **not** **give** | past · do-support | the good man *not said here* |  | servants *= servant* |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **smoke** | to-infinitive | the good man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **work** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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