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title: They had the blue lightning which belongs in the West; and the yello… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They had the blue lightning which belongs in the West; and the yellow lightning of the North; and the red lightning of the East; and the white lightning of the South; and with all these they played merrily. Who acts: corn, blue lightning. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 83

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They had the blue lightning which belongs in the West; and the yellow lightning of the North; and the red lightning of the East; and the white lightning of the South; and with all these they played merrily.

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**Who acts:** corn, blue lightning · **What happens:** have, belong, play · **To what, where:** blue lightning, West

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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, blue lightning), 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:pg77804:31:83
# text = They had the blue lightning which belongs in the West; and the yellow lightning of the North; and the red lightning of the East; and the white lightning of the South; and with all these they played merrily.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
39	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	obl	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | corn | the blue lightning |  |  |  | the yellow lightning of the North *conj*; the red lightning of the East *conj*; the white lightning of the South *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Patient |
| 2 | **belong** | present | the blue lightning |  |  | the West |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past | corn |  |  |  |  | with these; merrily *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with this=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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