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title: When you have shelled it and ground it, I will let you out”; and he… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you have shelled it and ground it, I will let you out”; and he showed her four great rooms piled from floor to ceiling with ears of corn. Who acts: you, corn, I, hag. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebear
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 17

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When you have shelled it and ground it, I will let you out”; and he showed her four great rooms piled from floor to ceiling with ears of corn.

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**Who acts:** you, corn, I, hag · **What happens:** shell, ground, let out, show, pile · **To what, where:** corn, you, four great rooms, door, floor

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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, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, corn, I, hag), 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:pg77804:30:17
# text = When you have shelled it and ground it, I will let you out”; and he showed her four great rooms piled from floor to ceiling with ears of corn.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	shelled	shell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shell** | present · perfect | you | corn |  |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 2 | **ground** |  | corn |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let out** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **show** *in a quote* | past | hag | four great rooms | door |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient room=Topic |
| 5 | **pile** *in a quote* | participle |  | four great rooms *not said here* |  | floor |  | to ceiling; with ears of corn | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ear=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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