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title: So the Eagle took the offering, and smoked the smoke-prayer; and the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Eagle took the offering, and smoked the smoke-prayer; and then he went winging upward into the very sky. Who acts: Eagle. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 103

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So the Eagle took the offering, and smoked the smoke-prayer; and then he went winging upward into the very sky.

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**Who acts:** Eagle · **What happens:** take, smoke, go, wing · **To what, where:** offering, smoke prayer, sky

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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 Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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:pg77804:10:104
# text = So the Eagle took the offering, and smoked the smoke-prayer; and then he went winging upward into the very sky.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	winging	wing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Eagle | the offering |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 2 | **smoke** | past | the Eagle *not said here* | the smoke prayer |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent prayer=Source |
| 3 | **go** | past | Eagle |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wing** | gerund | Eagle *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  | upward *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into sky=Trajectory |

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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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