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title: She repeated her commands thrice, and when the girl still refused to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She repeated her commands thrice, and when the girl still refused to come out, picked up a great boulder and began to hammer the rock-house to pieces. Who acts: giantess, girl. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Quères D
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 25

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She repeated her commands thrice, and when the girl still refused to come out, picked up a great boulder and began to hammer the rock-house to pieces.

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**Who acts:** giantess, girl · **What happens:** repeat, refuse, not come out, pick up, begin, hammer · **To what, where:** commands, great boulder, rock house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Quères Diana. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giantess, girl), 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:pg77804:29:25
# text = She repeated her commands thrice, and when the girl still refused to come out, picked up a great boulder and began to hammer the rock-house to pieces.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	boulder	boulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hammer	hammer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | giantess | giantess's commands |  |  |  | thrice *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Eventuality |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | the girl |  |  |  | still |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **come out** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pick up** | participle | the girl *not said here* | a great boulder |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boulder=Topic |
| 5 | **begin** | past | giantess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hammer** | to-infinitive | giantess *not said here* | the rock house |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent house=Patient to piece=Result |
| 7 | **command** |  | giantess |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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