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title: Then Too-wháy-deh followed him behind, without noise, and slyly bit… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Too-wháy-deh followed him behind, without noise, and slyly bit the bag and stole a cheese. Who acts: wháy, noise. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 17

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Then Too-wháy-deh followed him behind, without noise, and slyly bit the bag and stole a cheese.

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**Who acts:** wháy, noise · **What happens:** follow, bite, steal · **To what, where:** Burro, bag, cheese

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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, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wháy, noise), 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:pg77804:17:17
# text = Then Too-wháy-deh followed him behind, without noise, and slyly bit the bag and stole a cheese.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	wháy	wháy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	deh	deh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	slyly	slyly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | wháy | Burro |  |  | then | behind *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **bite** | past | noise | the bag |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
| 3 | **steal** | past | noise *not said here* | a cheese |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheese=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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