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title: Now it is to open the big mother-canal that comes from the river to… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it is to open the big mother-canal that comes from the river to all the fields, giving them to drink after their long thirst; and now to plow the _milpas_, and to uncover the buried grape-vines, and make ready for the farmer’s work. Who acts: end, big mother canal, fields, farmer. A sentence of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 3

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Now it is to open the big mother-canal that comes from the river to all the fields, giving them to drink after their long thirst; and now to plow the \_milpas\_, and to uncover the buried grape-vines, and make ready for the farmer’s work.

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**Who acts:** end, big mother canal, fields, farmer · **What happens:** be, come, give, drink, plow, uncover · **To what, where:** river, fields, milpas, buried grape vines

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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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, big mother canal, fields, farmer), 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:pg77804:34:3
# text = Now it is to open the big mother-canal that comes from the river to all the fields, giving them to drink after their long thirst; and now to plow the _milpas_, and to uncover the buried grape-vines, and make ready for the farmer’s work.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	plow	plow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	milpas	milpa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	uncover	uncover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
44	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
50	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’s	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | end |  |  |  | now | the big mother canal *obj*; open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the big mother canal |  |  | the river |  | to all fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from river=Initial\_Location to field=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | the big mother canal *not said here* |  | fields *= field* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | the big mother canal *not said here* |  |  |  | after fields's long thirst |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **plow** | to-infinitive | end *not said here* | the milpas |  |  | now |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent milpa=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **uncover** | to-infinitive | end *not said here* | the buried grape vines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **make** | infinitive | end *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 9 | **thirst** |  | fields *= field* |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **work** |  | the farmer |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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