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title: There they had enormous _ollas_, into which half a dozen children co… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There they had enormous _ollas_, into which half a dozen children could be thrown at once. Who acts: men. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 33

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There they had enormous \_ollas\_, into which half a dozen children could be thrown at once.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** have, throw · **To what, where:** enormous ollas, dozen children

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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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg77804:32:33
# text = There they had enormous _ollas_, into which half a dozen children could be thrown at once.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ollas	olla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
11	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | men *= man* | enormous ollas |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olla=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | could · passive |  | dozen children |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into which=Result |

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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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