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title: So the warriors could do nothing but run from their tiny foes, and u… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the warriors could do nothing but run from their tiny foes, and up the ladder to the roof they rushed pell-mell and thence fled to their homes, leaving the Mice victorious. Who acts: warriors. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher L
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 11

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So the warriors could do nothing but run from their tiny foes, and up the ladder to the roof they rushed pell-mell and thence fled to their homes, leaving the Mice victorious.

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**Who acts:** warriors · **What happens:** do, run, rush, mell, flee, leave · **To what, where:** nothing, tiny foes, pell, homes, Mice

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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 War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warriors), 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:pg77804:5:11
# text = So the warriors could do nothing but run from their tiny foes, and up the ladder to the roof they rushed pell-mell and thence fled to their homes, leaving the Mice victorious.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	pell	pell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	mell	mell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	victorious	victorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | the warriors | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run** | present | the warriors *not said here* |  |  | warriors's tiny foes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from foe=Trajectory |
| 3 | **rush** | past | warriors *= warrior* | pell |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pell=Trajectory |
| 4 | **mell** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | up the ladder to the roof | tree rules |
| 5 | **flee** | past |  |  |  | warriors's homes |  | thence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund |  | the Mice |  |  |  | victorious *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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