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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 31

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They gathered wood and tied it in bundles to bring home on their backs, and dug \_amole\_, which they put in their shawls to carry.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** gather, tie, bring, dig, put, carry · **To what, where:** wood, spot, bundles, backs, amole, shawls

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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 (friends), 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:pg77804:27:32
# text = They gathered wood and tied it in bundles to bring home on their backs, and dug _amole_, which they put in their shawls to carry.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	amole	amole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:outer	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	shawls	shawl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | friends *= friend* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 2 | **tie** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | spot |  | bundles |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  | friends's backs |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination |
| 4 | **dig** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | amole |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent amole=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | past |  |  |  | friends's shawls |  | which *nsubj:outer*; friends *= friend* *nsubj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in shawl=Destination |
| 6 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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