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title: Their grandmother was going for water; and from the top of the cliff… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their grandmother was going for water; and from the top of the cliff she saw them running so in the valley, and the Bear jumping behind them. Who acts: grandmother, Twins, Bear. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Tw
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 104

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Their grandmother was going for water; and from the top of the cliff she saw them running so in the valley, and the Bear jumping behind them.

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**Who acts:** grandmother, Twins, Bear · **What happens:** go, see, run, jump · **To what, where:** Twins, top, valley

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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 Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Twins, Bear), 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:pg77804:31:105
# text = Their grandmother was going for water; and from the top of the cliff she saw them running so in the valley, and the Bear jumping behind them.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
28	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Twins's grandmother |  |  |  |  | for water | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for water=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **see** | past | grandmother | Twins *= twin* |  | the top of the cliff |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | Twins *= twin* *not said here* |  |  | the valley |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Trajectory |
| 4 | **jump** | gerund | the Bear |  |  |  |  | behind Twins *= twin* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory |

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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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