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title: It was all sealed and still; and when she pushed in the door, there… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was all sealed and still; and when she pushed in the door, there were her Cubs dead in the smoke! Who acts: tooth. 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 o
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 67

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It was all sealed and still; and when she pushed in the door, there were her Cubs dead in the smoke!

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**Who acts:** tooth · **What happens:** seal, push, be · **To what, where:** rest, door, smoke

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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 (tooth), 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:pg77804:27:68
# text = It was all sealed and still; and when she pushed in the door, there were her Cubs dead in the smoke!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seal** | past · passive |  | rest |  |  |  | all *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **push** | past | tooth |  |  | the door |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in door=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the smoke |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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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