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title: When they had gathered much wood, and lashed it in bundles for carry… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had gathered much wood, and lashed it in bundles for carrying, they started off in opposite directions to hunt. Who acts: bundles, ’s. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes, with its depe
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 25

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When they had gathered much wood, and lashed it in bundles for carrying, they started off in opposite directions to hunt.

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**Who acts:** bundles, ’s · **What happens:** gather, lash, carry, start off, hunt · **To what, where:** ’s, wood, bundles, opposite directions

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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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bundles, ’s), 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:pg77804:8:26
# text = When they had gathered much wood, and lashed it in bundles for carrying, they started off in opposite directions to hunt.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lashed	lash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive |  | ’s *= '* |  |  |  | wood *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Theme |
| 2 | **lash** | past |  | wood |  | bundles |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | bundles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **start off** | past | ’s *= '* |  |  | opposite directions |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | ’s *= '* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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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