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description: For twelve days and twelve nights he and the men stayed shut up in the _estufa_, for two days fasting, and one day making the medicine-dance, and then fasting and then dancing again, as our medicine-men do to this day. Who acts: T’hoo, medicine men. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and o
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 99

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For twelve days and twelve nights he and the men stayed shut up in the \_estufa\_, for two days fasting, and one day making the medicine-dance, and then fasting and then dancing again, as our medicine-men do to this day.

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**Who acts:** T’hoo, medicine men · **What happens:** stay, shut up, fast, make, dance, do · **To what, where:** estufa, medicine dance

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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 (T’hoo, medicine men), 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:pg77804:34:101
# text = For twelve days and twelve nights he and the men stayed shut up in the _estufa_, for two days fasting, and one day making the medicine-dance, and then fasting and then dancing again, as our medicine-men do to this day.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	estufa	estufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	fasting	fast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
36	fasting	fast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
43	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
44	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
50	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | T’hoo *= t'hoo* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut up** | participle | T’hoo *= t'hoo* *not said here* |  |  | the estufa |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fast** | gerund | T’hoo *= t'hoo* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | T’hoo *= t'hoo* *not said here* | the medicine dance |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dance=Product |
| 5 | **fast** | gerund | T’hoo *= t'hoo* *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dance** | gerund | T’hoo *= t'hoo* *not said here* |  |  |  | then; again |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **do** | present | our medicine men |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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