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title: How the hail comes!” they cried excitedly, and began to throw stones… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: How the hail comes!” they cried excitedly, and began to throw stones at the swinging bag as hard as ever they could. Who acts: hail, Blackbirds. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, with its depe
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 21

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How the hail comes!” they cried excitedly, and began to throw stones at the swinging bag as hard as ever they could.

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**Who acts:** hail, Blackbirds · **What happens:** come, cry, begin, throw · **To what, where:** stones, swinging 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 (hail, Blackbirds), 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:pg77804:6:21
# text = How the hail comes!” they cried excitedly, and began to throw stones at the swinging bag as hard as ever they could.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	excitedly	excitedly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	swinging	swinging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the hail |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Blackbirds *= blackbird* |  |  |  |  | excitedly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | Blackbirds *= blackbird* *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | hard *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **throw** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Blackbirds *= blackbird* *not said here* | stones |  | the swinging bag |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at bag=Destination |

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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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