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title: The girl saw her fate, and, returning to her room, sat down and wept… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl saw her fate, and, returning to her room, sat down and wept--but there was no escape, for Mast-Truan’s old hag of a mother forever guarded the outer door. Who acts: girl, escape, old hag. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 13

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The girl saw her fate, and, returning to her room, sat down and wept--but there was no escape, for Mast-Truan’s old hag of a mother forever guarded the outer door.

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**Who acts:** girl, escape, old hag · **What happens:** see, return, sit down, weep, be, guard · **To what, where:** fate, outer door

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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, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, escape, old hag), 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:pg77804:30:13
# text = The girl saw her fate, and, returning to her room, sat down and wept--but there was no escape, for Mast-Truan’s old hag of a mother forever guarded the outer door.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
26	Mast	Mast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Truan	Truan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the girl | girl's fate |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
| 2 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to girl's room *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result |
| 3 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weep** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** | past | no escape |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **guard** | past | Mast Truan's old hag of a mother | the outer door |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **fate** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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