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title: There was a great battle, in which the Tée-wahn killed many Mice and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a great battle, in which the Tée-wahn killed many Mice and took their scalps. Who acts: great battle, Tée wahn. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 5

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There was a great battle, in which the Tée-wahn killed many Mice and took their scalps.

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**Who acts:** great battle, Tée wahn · **What happens:** be, kill, take · **To what, where:** many Mice, great battle, scalps

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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 (great battle, Tée wahn), 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:pg77804:5:5
# text = There was a great battle, in which the Tée-wahn killed many Mice and took their scalps.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	wahn	wahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	scalps	scalp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a great battle |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the Tée wahn | many Mice |  | a great battle |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | the Tée wahn *not said here* | Mice's scalps |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=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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