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title: Then the Crows emptied their bags, which were filled with nothing bu… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Crows emptied their bags, which were filled with nothing but sand, and flew up into the tree, laughing. Who acts: Crows. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Crows, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 22

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Then the Crows emptied their bags, which were filled with nothing but sand, and flew up into the tree, laughing.

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**Who acts:** Crows · **What happens:** empty, fill, fly up, laugh · **To what, where:** bags, tree

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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 Coyote and the Crows. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crows), 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:pg77804:4:22
# text = Then the Crows emptied their bags, which were filled with nothing but sand, and flew up into the tree, laughing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **empty** | past | the Crows | Crows's bags |  |  | then |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bag=Source |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive |  | Crows's bags |  |  |  | with nothing  sand | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with nothing=Instrument |
| 3 | **fly up** | past | the Crows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | the Crows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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