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title: One day a handsome stranger stole her and took her away to his home,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a handsome stranger stole her and took her away to his home, which was in the heart of the Snow Mountain (Mt. Who acts: handsome stranger, home. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard, with its depende
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 4

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One day a handsome stranger stole her and took her away to his home, which was in the heart of the Snow Mountain (Mt.

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**Who acts:** handsome stranger, home · **What happens:** steal, take away, be · **To what, where:** chief, heart

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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 (handsome stranger, home), 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:pg77804:30:4
# text = One day a handsome stranger stole her and took her away to his home, which was in the heart of the Snow Mountain (Mt.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Mt	Mt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | a handsome stranger | chief |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** | past | a handsome stranger *not said here* | chief |  |  |  | to stranger's home and the heart; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | stranger's home and the heart |  |  | the heart |  | of the Snow Mountain and Mt | 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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