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title: Bringing his captive home, the powerful stranger gave her the finest… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bringing his captive home, the powerful stranger gave her the finest clothing and treated her very nicely. Who acts: powerful stranger. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 7

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Bringing his captive home, the powerful stranger gave her the finest clothing and treated her very nicely.

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**Who acts:** powerful stranger · **What happens:** bring, give, treat · **To what, where:** captive home, finest clothing, Truan

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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 (powerful stranger), 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:pg77804:30:7
# text = Bringing his captive home, the powerful stranger gave her the finest clothing and treated her very nicely.
1	Bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **bring** | gerund | the powerful stranger *not said here* | San's captive home |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the powerful stranger | the finest clothing | Truan |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clothing=Theme |
| 3 | **treat** | past | the powerful stranger *not said here* |  | Truan |  |  | nicely *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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