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title: The rest of the town made such fun of the warriors that they refused… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest of the town made such fun of the warriors that they refused to return to the fight; and the elated Mice held a public dance in front of the _estufa_. Who acts: rest, warriors, elated Mice. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 12

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The rest of the town made such fun of the warriors that they refused to return to the fight; and the elated Mice held a public dance in front of the \_estufa\_.

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**Who acts:** rest, warriors, elated Mice · **What happens:** make, refuse, not return, elate, hold · **To what, where:** such fun, warriors, public dance, front

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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 (rest, warriors, elated Mice), 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:pg77804:5:12
# text = The rest of the town made such fun of the warriors that they refused to return to the fight; and the elated Mice held a public dance in front of the _estufa_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	elated	elate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	Mice	Mice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	estufa	estufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the rest of the town | such fun of the warriors |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | warriors *= warrior* | the warriors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **return** | to-infinitive | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the fight *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to fight=Result |
| 4 | **elate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hold** | past | the elated Mice | a public dance |  | front of the estufa |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dance=Theme in front=Location |

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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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