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title: When every kind that walks on the ground had met, he asked each of t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When every kind that walks on the ground had met, he asked each of them if they had found no cure; but none of them knew any. Who acts: kind, Commander, animals, none. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, w
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 40

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When every kind that walks on the ground had met, he asked each of them if they had found no cure; but none of them knew any.

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**Who acts:** kind, Commander, animals, none · **What happens:** walk, meet, ask, find, know · **To what, where:** ground, kind, each, cure, any

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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 (kind, Commander, animals, none), 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:pg77804:34:41
# text = When every kind that walks on the ground had met, he asked each of them if they had found no cure; but none of them knew any.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | every kind |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past · perfect · passive |  | every kind |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Commander | each of animals |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient |
| 4 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | animals *= animal* | no cure |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Topic |
| 5 | **know** | past | none of animals | any |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer any=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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