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title: She had a big basket upon her back, and stooping for the boys to get… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a big basket upon her back, and stooping for the boys to get into it, she carried them farther and farther into the woods. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek, with its depende
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 49

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She had a big basket upon her back, and stooping for the boys to get into it, she carried them farther and farther into the woods.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** have, stoop, get, carry · **To what, where:** big basket, back, rabbits, woods

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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 Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg77804:15:50
# text = She had a big basket upon her back, and stooping for the boys to get into it, she carried them farther and farther into the woods.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | woman | a big basket |  |  |  | upon woman's back | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient |
| 2 | **stoop** | gerund | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the boys | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  | back |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
| 4 | **carry** | past | woman | rabbits *= rabbit* |  | the woods |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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