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title: So a big bowl of soup was brought, and each took a _guayave_[96] and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So a big bowl of soup was brought, and each took a _guayave_[96] and rolled it like a spoon to dip up the soup. Who acts: each. 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 pr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 157

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So a big bowl of soup was brought, and each took a \_guayave\_\[96\] and rolled it like a spoon to dip up the soup.

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**Who acts:** each · **What happens:** bring, take, roll, dip up · **To what, where:** big bowl, guayave, soup

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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 (each), 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:pg77804:27:160
# text = So a big bowl of soup was brought, and each took a _guayave_[96] and rolled it like a spoon to dip up the soup.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	guayave	guayave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	96	96	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | a big bowl of soup |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | each | a guayave |  |  |  | 96 *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guayave=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** | past | each *not said here* | guayave |  |  |  | like a spoon | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **dip up** | to-infinitive | each *not said here* | the soup |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soup=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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