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title: But just then the Old-Woman-Mole, who had followed him underground a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But just then the Old-Woman-Mole, who had followed him underground all this way, dug a hole up to his very toes; and the smoke went down through his feet into the hole, and away back to the Old-Woman-Mole’s house, where it poured out in a great cloud. Who acts: Old Woman Mole, smoke. A sentence of «
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 71

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But just then the Old-Woman-Mole, who had followed him underground all this way, dug a hole up to his very toes; and the smoke went down through his feet into the hole, and away back to the Old-Woman-Mole’s house, where it poured out in a great cloud.

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**Who acts:** Old Woman Mole, smoke · **What happens:** follow, dig up, go down, pour out · **To what, where:** Old Woman Mole, hole, house, feet, great cloud

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Woman Mole, smoke), 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:pg77804:19:72
# text = But just then the Old-Woman-Mole, who had followed him underground all this way, dug a hole up to his very toes; and the smoke went down through his feet into the hole, and away back to the Old-Woman-Mole’s house, where it poured out in a great cloud.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
20	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
43	back	back	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
57	out	out	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Old Woman Mole |  |  |  | all way *obl:unmarked*; boy *obj*; underground *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
| 2 | **dig up** | past | the Old Woman Mole | a hole |  |  |  | to boy's toes | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 3 | **go down** | past | the smoke | Mole's house |  | boy's feet |  | into the hole; away, down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through foot=Location |
| 4 | **pour out** | past | smoke |  |  | a great cloud |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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