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title: But when Mí-o-chin built his fire and heated the stones, again the w… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when Mí-o-chin built his fire and heated the stones, again the warm South Wind drove away the ice and dried the earth. Who acts: Mí, warm South Wind. 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, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 31

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But when Mí-o-chin built his fire and heated the stones, again the warm South Wind drove away the ice and dried the earth.

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**Who acts:** Mí, warm South Wind · **What happens:** build, heat, drive away, dry, fire · **To what, where:** fire, stones, ice, earth

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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 (Mí, warm South Wind), 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:pg77804:21:31
# text = But when Mí-o-chin built his fire and heated the stones, again the warm South Wind drove away the ice and dried the earth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	Mí	Mí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	heated	heat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Mí | Mí's fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 2 | **heat** | past |  | the stones |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 3 | **drive away** | past | the warm South Wind | the ice |  |  | again | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme |
| 4 | **dry** | past | the warm South Wind *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient earth=Result |
| 5 | **fire** |  | Mí |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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