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title: When the old Giant-woman had gone into the house, Máw-Sahv and Oó-ya… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the old Giant-woman had gone into the house, Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee broke the smaller stone that closed the smoke-hole of the oven, and crawled out from their fiery prison unsinged. Who acts: old Giant woman, Máw, smaller stone. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Ind
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 58

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When the old Giant-woman had gone into the house, Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee broke the smaller stone that closed the smoke-hole of the oven, and crawled out from their fiery prison unsinged.

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**Who acts:** old Giant woman, Máw, smaller stone · **What happens:** go, break, close, crawl out · **To what, where:** house, smaller stone, smoke hole, fiery prison

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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 (old Giant woman, Máw, smaller stone), 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:pg77804:31:58
# text = When the old Giant-woman had gone into the house, Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee broke the smaller stone that closed the smoke-hole of the oven, and crawled out from their fiery prison unsinged.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Máw	Máw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Sahv	Sahv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	Oó	Oó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	yah	yah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	unsinged	unsinged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the old Giant woman |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **break** | past | Máw and Sahv and Oó yah wee | the smaller stone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Patient |
| 3 | **close** | past | the smaller stone | the smoke hole of the oven |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 4 | **crawl out** | past | Máw and Sahv and Oó yah wee *not said here* |  |  | Máw's fiery prison |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from prison=Trajectory |

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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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