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title: Then for two days she kept grinding on her _metate_, apparently alon… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then for two days she kept grinding on her _metate_, apparently alone, but hearing the constant grind of another _metate_ close beside her. Who acts: fairy. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard, with its dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 25

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Then for two days she kept grinding on her \_metate\_, apparently alone, but hearing the constant grind of another \_metate\_ close beside her.

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**Who acts:** fairy · **What happens:** keep, grind, hear · **To what, where:** \_ metate, constant grind

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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 (fairy), 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:pg77804:30:25
# text = Then for two days she kept grinding on her _metate_, apparently alone, but hearing the constant grind of another _metate_ close beside her.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	metate	metate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	grind	grind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nmod	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	metate	metate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	_
27	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
28	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | fairy |  |  |  | then; day | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grind** | gerund | fairy *not said here* |  |  | fairy's \_ metate |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund | fairy *not said here* | the constant grind of another |  |  |  | metate *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer grind=Stimulus |

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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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