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title: Then they untied the rope and let the bag slowly to the ground, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they untied the rope and let the bag slowly to the ground, and loosened the noose at the neck and flew up into the trees with sober faces. Who acts: hearts. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbir
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 35

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Then they untied the rope and let the bag slowly to the ground, and loosened the noose at the neck and flew up into the trees with sober faces.

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**Who acts:** hearts · **What happens:** untie, let, loosen, fly up · **To what, where:** rope, bag, ground, noose, neck, trees

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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 (hearts), 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:pg77804:6:35
# text = Then they untied the rope and let the bag slowly to the ground, and loosened the noose at the neck and flew up into the trees with sober faces.
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	untied	untie	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	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	noose	noose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	sober	sober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	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 | **untie** | past | hearts *= heart* | the rope |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | hearts *= heart* *not said here* | the bag | the ground |  |  | slowly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to ground=Recipient |
| 3 | **loosen** | past | hearts *= heart* *not said here* | the noose |  | the neck |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent noose=Patient |
| 4 | **fly up** | past | hearts *= heart* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the trees *result*; with sober faces | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result |

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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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