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title: Then the Tée-wahn returned to their village, and the warriors went i… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 6

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Then the Tée-wahn returned to their village, and the warriors went into the \_estufa\_ (sacred council-chamber) to prepare themselves by fasting for the great scalp-dance in twelve days.

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**Who acts:** Tée wahn, warriors · **What happens:** return, go, prepare, fast · **To what, where:** sacred council chamber, estufa, 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 (Tée wahn, 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:pg77804:5:6
# text = Then the Tée-wahn returned to their village, and the warriors went into the _estufa_ (sacred council-chamber) to prepare themselves by fasting for the great scalp-dance in twelve days.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	wahn	wahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	estufa	estufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	fasting	fast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the Tée wahn |  |  |  | then | to Mice's village *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result |
| 2 | **go** | past | the warriors | sacred council chamber |  | the estufa |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into estufa=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | the warriors *not said here* | Mice *= mouse* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 4 | **fast** | gerund | the warriors *not said here* |  |  |  | day | for the great scalp dance | tree rules |

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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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