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title: She stopped at the house of the Deer, and gave the Fawns some of the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She stopped at the house of the Deer, and gave the Fawns some of the accursed meat, saying: Who acts: tired. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 42

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She stopped at the house of the Deer, and gave the Fawns some of the accursed meat, saying:

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**Who acts:** tired · **What happens:** stop, give, accurs, say · **To what, where:** house, some · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tired), 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:pg77804:27:43
# text = She stopped at the house of the Deer, and gave the Fawns some of the accursed meat, saying:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Fawns	Fawn	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | tired |  |  | the house of the Deer |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | tired *not said here* | some  the Fawns of the accursed meat |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 3 | **accurs** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | tired *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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