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title: But it was not very long till Shée-wo-nah, the Storm-King, had occas… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was not very long till Shée-wo-nah, the Storm-King, had occasion to use the lightning; and when he looked in the room where he was wont to keep it, and found it gone, his wrath knew no bounds. Who acts: West, Shée, King, wrath. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Ind
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 84

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But it was not very long till Shée-wo-nah, the Storm-King, had occasion to use the lightning; and when he looked in the room where he was wont to keep it, and found it gone, his wrath knew no bounds.

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**Who acts:** West, Shée, King, wrath · **What happens:** not be, have, use, look, be, keep · **To what, where:** occasion, lightning, West, bounds

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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 (West, Shée, King, wrath), 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:pg77804:31:84
# text = But it was not very long till Shée-wo-nah, the Storm-King, had occasion to use the lightning; and when he looked in the room where he was wont to keep it, and found it gone, his wrath knew no bounds.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
8	Shée	Shée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Storm	Storm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
20	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
49	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	50	det	_	_
50	bounds	bound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | West |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Shée | occasion |  |  |  | the Storm King *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient |
| 3 | **use** | to-infinitive | Shée *not said here* | the lightning |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | past | King |  |  |  |  | in the room | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in room=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | West |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | past | King *not said here* | West |  |  |  | gone *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 8 | **know** | past | King's wrath | no bounds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus |

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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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