--- title: Then he summoned the storm, and it began to rain and blow fearfully… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he summoned the storm, and it began to rain and blow fearfully outside; while within the boys rattled their thunder in loud defiance, regardless of their grandmother’s entreaties to give the Storm-King his lightning. Who acts: wrath, storm, boys. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wrath, storm, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:31:87 # text = Then he summoned the storm, and it began to rain and blow fearfully outside; while within the boys rattled their thunder in loud defiance, regardless of their grandmother’s entreaties to give the Storm-King his lightning. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 fearfully fearfully ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 outside outside ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 within within ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 rattled rattle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 defiance defiance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 regardless regardless ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 entreaties entreaty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 Storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 iobj _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **summon** | past | wrath | the storm | | | then | of boys's grandmother's entreaties | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Recipient | | 2 | **begin** | past | storm | rain | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **blow** | infinitive | storm *not said here* | | | | | fearfully, outside *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **rattle** | past | the boys | boys's thunder | | loud defiance | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme | | 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | wrath *not said here* | wrath's lightning | the Storm King | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient lightning=Theme | | 6 | **thunder** | | boys *= boy* | | | | | | nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/88/) - ↑ back to [The Hero Twins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/)