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title: So he wound it up,[26] and holding by one end gave it a push so that… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he wound it up,[26] and holding by one end gave it a push so that it ran away from him, unrolling as it went. Who acts: friend, holding, last. 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 dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 97

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So he wound it up,\[26\] and holding by one end gave it a push so that it ran away from him, unrolling as it went.

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**Who acts:** friend, holding, last · **What happens:** woun up, hold, give, run away, unroll, go · **To what, where:** last

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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 (friend, holding, last), 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:pg77804:8:98
# text = So he wound it up,[26] and holding by one end gave it a push so that it ran away from him, unrolling as it went.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wound	woun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	unrolling	unroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	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 | **woun up** | past | friend | last |  |  |  | 26 *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund |  |  |  |  | by one end |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by end=Location |
| 3 | **give** | past | holding | last |  |  |  | a push *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient push=Theme |
| 4 | **run away** | past | last |  |  |  |  | from friend; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory |
| 5 | **unroll** | gerund | last *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past | last |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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