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title: Going in, they took the lightning and played with it awhile, throwin… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Going in, they took the lightning and played with it awhile, throwing it from one to the other, and at last started home, carrying their strange toy with them. Who acts: corn. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twin
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 80

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Going in, they took the lightning and played with it awhile, throwing it from one to the other, and at last started home, carrying their strange toy with them.

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**Who acts:** corn · **What happens:** go in, take, play, throw, start, carry · **To what, where:** lightning, room, last, strange toy

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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), 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:pg77804:31:80
# text = Going in, they took the lightning and played with it awhile, throwing it from one to the other, and at last started home, carrying their strange toy with them.
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
25	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | gerund | corn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | corn | the lightning |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past | corn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with room; awhile *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | gerund | corn *not said here* | room |  |  |  | from one to the other | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from one=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **start** | past | corn *not said here* |  |  | last |  | home *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **carry** | gerund | corn *not said here* | corn's strange toy |  |  |  | with corn | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=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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