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title: On and on they went, till at last they heard the growl of distant th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on they went, till at last they heard the growl of distant thunder. Who acts: corn, distant thunder. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 78

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On and on they went, till at last they heard the growl of distant thunder.

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**Who acts:** corn, distant thunder · **What happens:** go, hear, growl · **To what, where:** growl

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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 (corn, distant thunder), 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:pg77804:31:78
# text = On and on they went, till at last they heard the growl of distant thunder.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | corn |  |  |  | till last |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | corn | the growl of distant thunder |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer growl=Stimulus |
| 3 | **growl** |  | distant thunder |  |  |  |  |  | nom growl «event intransitive»: of=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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