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title: That was the time when the Mice conquered men; and that is the reaso… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That was the time when the Mice conquered men; and that is the reason why we have never been able to drive the Mice out of our homes to this day. Who acts: That, Mice, we. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 26

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That was the time when the Mice conquered men; and that is the reason why we have never been able to drive the Mice out of our homes to this day.

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**Who acts:** That, Mice, we · **What happens:** be, conquer, not be, drive · **To what, where:** time, men, reason, Mice, homes

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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 (That, Mice, we), 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:pg77804:5:27
# text = That was the time when the Mice conquered men; and that is the reason why we have never been able to drive the Mice out of our homes to this day.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | the time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **conquer** | past | the Mice | men |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | the reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the Mice |  | our homes | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme out home=Trajectory |

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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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