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title: But all were not so strong as the great Toad; and fast it was swallo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But all were not so strong as the great Toad; and fast it was swallowing him, until he was at the waist. Who acts: all, Toad, man. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 59

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But all were not so strong as the great Toad; and fast it was swallowing him, until he was at the waist.

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**Who acts:** all, Toad, man · **What happens:** not be, be, swallow · **To what, where:** man, waist

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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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, Toad, 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:pg77804:26:60
# text = But all were not so strong as the great Toad; and fast it was swallowing him, until he was at the waist.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | as the great Toad; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swallow** | past · progressive | Toad | man |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | man |  |  | the waist |  |  | tree rules |

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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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