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title: So the Badger-wife went with meal to the house of the Field-Mouse, m… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Badger-wife went with meal to the house of the Field-Mouse, making to be very sad; and brought him back with her. Who acts: Badger wife. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, with its dependency tree 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 71

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So the Badger-wife went with meal to the house of the Field-Mouse, making to be very sad; and brought him back with her.

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**Who acts:** Badger wife · **What happens:** go, make, be, bring back · **To what, where:** house, deh

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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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger wife), 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:pg77804:34:72
# text = So the Badger-wife went with meal to the house of the Field-Mouse, making to be very sad; and brought him back with her.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Badger wife |  |  | the house of the Field Mouse |  | with meal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the Badger wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Badger wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring back** | past | the Badger wife *not said here* |  | deh |  |  | with wife | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |

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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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