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title: [mama],” they cried, and, pulling the meat from the fire, they laid… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [mama],” they cried, and, pulling the meat from the fire, they laid it gently away and sobbed themselves to sleep. Who acts: mama, Wolf. 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 a
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 48

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\[mama\],” they cried, and, pulling the meat from the fire, they laid it gently away and sobbed themselves to sleep.

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**Who acts:** mama, Wolf · **What happens:** cry, pull, lay away, sob, sleep · **To what, where:** meat, fire, Wolf

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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 (mama, Wolf), 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:pg77804:27:49
# text = [mama],” they cried, and, pulling the meat from the fire, they laid it gently away and sobbed themselves to sleep.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mama	mama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sobbed	sob	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | mama |  |  |  |  | Wolf *nsubj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull** *in a quote* | gerund | mama *not said here* | the meat |  | the fire |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent meat=Theme from fire=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay away** *in a quote* | past | Wolf | meat |  |  |  | away, gently *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |
| 4 | **sob** *in a quote* | past | mama *not said here* | Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mama *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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