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description: So she told them to come down, and gave them some sweet cakes, and then sent them out to bring her some more wood. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 67

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So she told them to come down, and gave them some sweet cakes, and then sent them out to bring her some more wood.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** tell, come down, give, send out, bring · **To what, where:** boys, sweet cakes, more wood, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg77804:31:67
# text = So she told them to come down, and gave them some sweet cakes, and then sent them out to bring her some more wood.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	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	iobj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | woman *not said here* | some sweet cakes | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cake=Theme |
| 4 | **send out** | past | woman *not said here* | boys *= boy* |  |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | some more wood | woman |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination wood=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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