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title: All summer they worked together in the field, hoeing down the weeds… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: All summer they worked together in the field, hoeing down the weeds with stone hoes and letting in water now and then from the irrigating-ditch. Who acts: summer. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Bear[17
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 12

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All summer they worked together in the field, hoeing down the weeds with stone hoes and letting in water now and then from the irrigating-ditch.

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**Who acts:** summer · **What happens:** work together, hoe, let · **To what, where:** weeds, water

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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 Bear\[17\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summer), 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:pg77804:7:12
# text = All summer they worked together in the field, hoeing down the weeds with stone hoes and letting in water now and then from the irrigating-ditch.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hoeing	hoe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hoes	hoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	irrigating	irrigating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work together** | past | all summer |  |  |  |  | in the field; bear *nsubj*; together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme |
| 2 | **hoe** | gerund | all summer *not said here* |  |  | the weeds |  | with stone hoes | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent down weed=Trajectory |
| 3 | **let** | gerund | all summer *not said here* |  |  | water | now; then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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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