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title: It kept raining violently, however, and the water came pouring down… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It kept raining violently, however, and the water came pouring down the chimney until the room was nearly full, and they were in great danger of drowning. Who acts: thunder, water, room, lightnings. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletche
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 88

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It kept raining violently, however, and the water came pouring down the chimney until the room was nearly full, and they were in great danger of drowning.

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**Who acts:** thunder, water, room, lightnings · **What happens:** keep, rain, come, pour down, be · **To what, where:** chimney, great danger

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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 (thunder, water, room, lightnings), 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:pg77804:31:88
# text = It kept raining violently, however, and the water came pouring down the chimney until the room was nearly full, and they were in great danger of drowning.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	drowning	drowning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rain** | gerund | thunder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | however, violently *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **come** | past | the water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pour down** | gerund | the water *not said here* | the chimney |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | the room |  |  |  |  | full, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | lightnings *= lightning* |  |  | great danger |  | of drowning | tree rules |

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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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