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title: They fixed the rope and bag for him, putting the noose around the ne… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They fixed the rope and bag for him, putting the noose around the neck of the bag so that it would be closed tight when the rope was pulled. Who acts: lassos. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbirds,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 15

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They fixed the rope and bag for him, putting the noose around the neck of the bag so that it would be closed tight when the rope was pulled.

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**Who acts:** lassos · **What happens:** fix, put, close, pull · **To what, where:** rope, noose, neck, bag

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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 Blackbirds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lassos), 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:pg77804:6:15
# text = They fixed the rope and bag for him, putting the noose around the neck of the bag so that it would be closed tight when the rope was pulled.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	noose	noose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
25	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	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 | **fix** | past | lassos *= lasso* | the rope and bag |  |  |  | for Coyote | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rope=Product for he=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | lassos *= lasso* *not said here* | the noose |  | the neck of the bag |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noose=Theme around neck=Destination |
| 3 | **close** | would · passive |  | bag |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **pull** | past · passive |  | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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