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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 55

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If a man took a long stick, shaped like a sword, and went and stood on top of the stone, and struck it with the full length of the stick first east and west, and then north and south, the water would come out so hard that the stone would be thrown out upon the banks and the spring could never be stopped again.”

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**Who acts:** man, water · **What happens:** take, shape, go, stand, strike, come out · **To what, where:** long stick, top, stick, stone, banks

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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 (man, water), 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:pg77804:25:55
# text = If a man took a long stick, shaped like a sword, and went and stood on top of the stone, and struck it with the full length of the stick first east and west, and then north and south, the water would come out so hard that the stone would be thrown out upon the banks and the spring could never be stopped again.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	advmod	_	_
35	east	east	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	west	west	ADV	RB	_	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
41	north	north	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	south	south	ADV	RB	_	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
49	out	out	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	advcl	_	_
58	out	out	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obl:unmarked	_	_
65	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
66	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	68	advmod	_	_
67	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	68	aux:pass	_	_
68	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	conj	_	_
69	again	again	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a man | a long stick |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  | a long stick *not said here* |  |  |  | like a sword | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **go** | past | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | a man *not said here* |  |  | top of the stone |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location |
| 5 | **strike** | past | a man *not said here* | stick |  |  |  | with the full length of the stick; east *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with length=Instrument |
| 6 | **come out** | would | the water |  |  |  | then | hard, north, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **throw out** | would · passive |  | the stone |  | the banks |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon bank=Destination |
| 8 | **not** **stop** | could · passive |  |  |  |  | again; spring |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» |

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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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