--- title: Then she took them and washed them very carefully, and taking them b… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Then she took them and washed them very carefully, and taking them by the necks, thrust them into the glowing oven and sealed the door with a great, flat rock, and left them there to be roasted. Who acts: woman, taking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:31:56 # text = Then she took them and washed them very carefully, and taking them by the necks, thrust them into the glowing oven and sealed the door with a great, flat rock, and left them there to be roasted. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 washed wash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 18 thrust thrust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 sealed seal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 roasted roast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | woman | boys *= boy* | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **wash** | past | woman *not said here* | boys *= boy* | | | | carefully *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **take** | gerund | | boys *= boy* | | | | by the necks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **thrust** | infinitive | taking | boys *= boy* | | the glowing oven | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **seal** | past | woman *not said here* | the door | | | | with a great flat rock | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with rock=Instrument | | 7 | **leave** | past | woman *not said here* | boys *= boy* | | there | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 8 | **roast** | to-infinitive · passive | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/57/) - ↑ back to [The Hero Twins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/)