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title: THEM THE WOLF DROPPED THE SPOONFUL OF SOUP.”] — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: THEM THE WOLF DROPPED THE SPOONFUL OF SOUP.”] Who acts: people. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 146

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THEM THE WOLF DROPPED THE SPOONFUL OF SOUP.”\]

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** drop · **To what, where:** SPOONFUL

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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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg77804:27:149
# text = THEM THE WOLF DROPPED THE SPOONFUL OF SOUP.”]
1	THEM	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	WOLF	WOLF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	DROPPED	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	SPOONFUL	spoonful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	SOUP	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | people | the SPOONFUL of SOUP |  |  |  | the WOLF *nsubj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonful=Theme |

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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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