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title: As he put his foot on the ladder to come down into the house (all Pu… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As he put his foot on the ladder to come down into the house (all Pueblo rooms used to be entered only from the roof, and thousands are so yet) great flakes of snow fell around him; but Mí-o-chin, the newcomer, made it very warm, and the snow melted. Who acts: Shó, Pueblo rooms, thousands, great fla
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 22

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As he put his foot on the ladder to come down into the house (all Pueblo rooms used to be entered only from the roof, and thousands are so yet) great flakes of snow fell around him; but Mí-o-chin, the newcomer, made it very warm, and the snow melted.

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**Who acts:** Shó, Pueblo rooms, thousands, great flakes, Mí, snow · **What happens:** put, come down, use, enter, be, fall · **To what, where:** foot, ladder, house, roof

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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 North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shó, Pueblo rooms, thousands, great flakes), 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:pg77804:21:22
# text = As he put his foot on the ladder to come down into the house (all Pueblo rooms used to be entered only from the roof, and thousands are so yet) great flakes of snow fell around him; but Mí-o-chin, the newcomer, made it very warm, and the snow melted.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
29	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	around	around	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
43	Mí	Mí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	47	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
52	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	very	very	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Shó | Shó's foot |  | the ladder |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ladder=Destination |
| 2 | **come down** | to-infinitive | Shó *not said here* |  |  | the house |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **use** | past | all Pueblo rooms | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent house=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **enter** | to-infinitive · passive | all Pueblo rooms *not said here* |  |  | the roof |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: from roof=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | thousands |  |  |  |  | yet *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | past | great flakes of snow |  |  |  |  | around Shó | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around he=Location |
| 7 | **make** | past | Mí | foot |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 8 | **melt** | participle | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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