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title: And they kept pelting him, all the time crying and chattering as if… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they kept pelting him, all the time crying and chattering as if they, too, were suffering greatly from the hail. Who acts: friends. 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 dependency tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 27

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And they kept pelting him, all the time crying and chattering as if they, too, were suffering greatly from the hail.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** keep, pelt, cry, chatter, suffer · **To what, where:** Coyote, hail

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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 (friends), 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:pg77804:6:27
# text = And they kept pelting him, all the time crying and chattering as if they, too, were suffering greatly from the hail.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pelting	pelt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
21	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pelt** | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  | Coyote |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **chatter** | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as friends *= friend* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suffer** | past · progressive | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  | the hail |  | greatly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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