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title: Sun-Arrow grasped her long tail with both hands, and she flew and fl… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sun-Arrow grasped her long tail with both hands, and she flew and flew with all her might, not caring for the pain, until her tail was pulled off. Who acts: Sun, Bluebird. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtail
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 80

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Sun-Arrow grasped her long tail with both hands, and she flew and flew with all her might, not caring for the pain, until her tail was pulled off.

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**Who acts:** Sun, Bluebird · **What happens:** grasp, fly, not care, pull off · **To what, where:** long tail, tail

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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 (Sun, Bluebird), 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:pg77804:26:81
# text = Sun-Arrow grasped her long tail with both hands, and she flew and flew with all her might, not caring for the pain, until her tail was pulled off.
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	grasped	grasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grasp** | past | Sun and Arrow | Bluebird's long tail |  |  |  | with both hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tail=Experiencer with hand=Instrument |
| 2 | **fly** | past | Bluebird |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Bluebird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **care** | gerund | Bluebird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the pain | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for pain=Theme |
| 5 | **pull off** | past · passive |  | Bluebird's tail |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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