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title: Then they tied the end of the lasso around the tree so the bag could… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they tied the end of the lasso around the tree so the bag could not come down, and ran around picking up all the pebbles they could find. Who acts: Blackbirds, bag. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 19

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Then they tied the end of the lasso around the tree so the bag could not come down, and ran around picking up all the pebbles they could find.

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**Who acts:** Blackbirds, bag · **What happens:** tie, not come down, run around, pick up, find · **To what, where:** end, pebbles

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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 (Blackbirds, bag), 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:pg77804:6:19
# text = Then they tied the end of the lasso around the tree so the bag could not come down, and ran around picking up all the pebbles they could find.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lasso	lasso	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	around	around	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past | Blackbirds *= blackbird* | the end of the lasso around the tree |  |  | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **come down** | could | the bag |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run around** | past | Blackbirds *= blackbird* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pick up** | gerund | Blackbirds *= blackbird* *not said here* | all pebbles |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic |
| 5 | **find** | could | Blackbirds *= blackbird* | all pebbles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic |

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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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