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title: The ladder came down through the roof-door again, and the five True… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The ladder came down through the roof-door again, and the five True Believers climbed out and went to their homes. Who acts: ladder, five True Believers. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, with its dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 115

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The ladder came down through the roof-door again, and the five True Believers climbed out and went to their homes.

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**Who acts:** ladder, five True Believers · **What happens:** come down, climb out, go · **To what, where:** roof door, homes

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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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladder, five True Believers), 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:pg77804:23:115
# text = The ladder came down through the roof-door again, and the five True Believers climbed out and went to their homes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Believers	believer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | the ladder |  |  | the roof door | again | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **climb out** | past | the five True Believers |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the five True Believers *not said here* |  |  | Believers's homes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |

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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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