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description: And then rubbing a little wood-ashes on his hands, he put them on the stomach and breast of the Badger, rubbing and feeling. Who acts: deh. 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 and 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 74

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And then rubbing a little wood-ashes on his hands, he put them on the stomach and breast of the Badger, rubbing and feeling.

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**Who acts:** deh · **What happens:** rub, put, feel · **To what, where:** little wood ashes, hands, ashes, stomach

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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 (deh), 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:pg77804:34:75
# text = And then rubbing a little wood-ashes on his hands, he put them on the stomach and breast of the Badger, rubbing and feeling.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | gerund | deh *not said here* | a little wood ashes |  | deh's hands | then |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme on hand=Destination |
| 2 | **put** | past | deh | ashes *= ash* |  | the stomach and breast of the Badger |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on stomach=Destination |
| 3 | **rub** | gerund | deh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund | deh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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