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title: For three weeks now, all its people, and all the people along that r… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For three weeks now, all its people, and all the people along that river, have been working at the spring from which the river comes, but have not been able to undo me. Who acts: people, river. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lum
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 47

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For three weeks now, all its people, and all the people along that river, have been working at the spring from which the river comes, but have not been able to undo me.

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**Who acts:** people, river · **What happens:** work, come, not be, undo · **To what, where:** me

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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 (people, river), 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:pg77804:25:47
# text = For three weeks now, all its people, and all the people along that river, have been working at the spring from which the river comes, but have not been able to undo me.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
20	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present · perfect · progressive | nation's people  all people along that river |  |  |  | now; spring |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | the river |  |  |  | from the spring |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present · perfect | nation's people  all people along that river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **undo** | to-infinitive | nation's people  all people along that river *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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