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title: Leaping upon the stone he struck it with the full length of the stic… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Leaping upon the stone he struck it with the full length of the stick east and west, and then north and south, and sprang nimbly to the bank. Who acts: 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 Keep Sunday
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 82

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Leaping upon the stone he struck it with the full length of the stick east and west, and then north and south, and sprang nimbly to the bank.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** leap, strike, spring · **To what, where:** stone, length, bank

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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), 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:pg77804:25:82
# text = Leaping upon the stone he struck it with the full length of the stick east and west, and then north and south, and sprang nimbly to the bank.
1	Leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	east	east	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	west	west	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	north	north	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	south	south	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | gerund |  |  |  | the stone |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Trajectory |
| 2 | **strike** | past | man | length |  |  | then | with the full length of the stick; east, north *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with length=Instrument |
| 3 | **spring** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | the bank |  | nimbly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination |

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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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