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title: Then a young woman who was a stranger came and pushed them apart and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a young woman who was a stranger came and pushed them apart and danced between them. Who acts: young woman. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 73

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Then a young woman who was a stranger came and pushed them apart and danced between them.

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**Who acts:** young woman · **What happens:** be, come, push, dance · **To what, where:** stranger, boys

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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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young woman), 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:pg77804:12:73
# text = Then a young woman who was a stranger came and pushed them apart and danced between them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a young woman and a stranger | a stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | a young woman and a stranger |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **push** | past | a young woman and a stranger *not said here* | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** | past | a young woman and a stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between boys *= boy* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Location |

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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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