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description: Then, shutting the Cubs into the room, they plastered up the door and windows with mud, and laid a flat rock on top of the chimney and sealed it around with mud; and climbing down from the roof, they took each other’s hands and ran away to the south as fast as ever they could. Who acts: cubs. A sent
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 55

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Then, shutting the Cubs into the room, they plastered up the door and windows with mud, and laid a flat rock on top of the chimney and sealed it around with mud; and climbing down from the roof, they took each other’s hands and ran away to the south as fast as ever they could.

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**Who acts:** cubs · **What happens:** shut, plaster up, lay, seal around, climb down, take · **To what, where:** Cubs, room, door, flat rock, top, rock

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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 (cubs), 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:pg77804:27:56
# text = Then, shutting the Cubs into the room, they plastered up the door and windows with mud, and laid a flat rock on top of the chimney and sealed it around with mud; and climbing down from the roof, they took each other’s hands and ran away to the south as fast as ever they could.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shutting	shut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cubs	Cub	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	plastered	plaster	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sealed	seal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	around	around	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
38	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
39	down	down	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
46	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	’s	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	as	as	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	_
58	as	as	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	57	obl	_	_
60	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | gerund | cubs *= cub* *not said here* | the Cubs |  | the room | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cub=Patient |
| 2 | **plaster up** | past | cubs *= cub* | the door and windows with mud |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | past |  | a flat rock |  | top of the chimney |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rock=Theme on top=Destination |
| 4 | **seal around** | past |  | rock |  |  |  | with mud; around *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with mud=Instrument |
| 5 | **climb down** | gerund | cubs *= cub* *not said here* |  |  | the roof |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from roof=Trajectory |
| 6 | **take** | past | cubs *= cub* | each other's hands |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 7 | **run away** | past | cubs *= cub* *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | to the south *result*; away, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to south=Result |

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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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