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title: But immediately, as the boys had planned, the green wood began to sm… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But immediately, as the boys had planned, the green wood began to smoke at a dreadful rate, and soon the room was so dense with it that they all began to cough and strangle. Who acts: green wood, room, boys. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charle
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 71

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But immediately, as the boys had planned, the green wood began to smoke at a dreadful rate, and soon the room was so dense with it that they all began to cough and strangle.

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**Who acts:** green wood, room, boys · **What happens:** plan, begin, smoke, be, cough, strangle · **To what, where:** boys, dreadful rate

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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 (green wood, room, boys), 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:pg77804:31:71
# text = But immediately, as the boys had planned, the green wood began to smoke at a dreadful rate, and soon the room was so dense with it that they all began to cough and strangle.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
33	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | past · perfect · passive |  | the boys |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the green wood |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **smoke** | to-infinitive | the green wood *not said here* |  |  | a dreadful rate |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the room |  |  |  |  | with rate; dense, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **cough** | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **strangle** | infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «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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