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title: Once she sat down to rest, and the boys slyly put a lot of big stone… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once she sat down to rest, and the boys slyly put a lot of big stones in the basket, set fire to her pitched hair, and hurriedly climbed a tall pine. Who acts: woman, boys. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 47

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Once she sat down to rest, and the boys slyly put a lot of big stones in the basket, set fire to her pitched hair, and hurriedly climbed a tall pine.

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**Who acts:** woman, boys · **What happens:** sit down, rest, put, set, pitch, climb · **To what, where:** lot, basket, fire, tall pine

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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 Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, boys), 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:pg77804:31:47
# text = Once she sat down to rest, and the boys slyly put a lot of big stones in the basket, set fire to her pitched hair, and hurriedly climbed a tall pine.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	slyly	slyly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | present | the boys | a lot of big stones |  | the basket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lot=Theme in basket=Destination |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | the boys *not said here* | fire |  |  |  | to woman's pitched hair | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
| 5 | **pitch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **climb** | past | woman *not said here* | a tall pine |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location pine=Theme |

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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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