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title: In two steps she was at the rock-house, and, stooping down, she call… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In two steps she was at the rock-house, and, stooping down, she called at the door: “Quáh-tzee? Who acts: giantess, rock house. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Quères Diana, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 15

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In two steps she was at the rock-house, and, stooping down, she called at the door: “Quáh-tzee?

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**Who acts:** giantess, rock house · **What happens:** be, stoop down, call · **To what, where:** rock house, Quáh tzee · **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 Quères Diana. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giantess, rock house), 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:pg77804:29:15
# text = In two steps she was at the rock-house, and, stooping down, she called at the door: “Quáh-tzee?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Quáh	Quáh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tzee	tzee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | giantess |  |  | the rock house |  | in two steps | tree rules |
| 2 | **stoop down** | gerund | the rock house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | past | giantess | Quáh tzee |  |  |  | at the door | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at door=Stimulus |

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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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