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title: While the warriors were sitting inside, the Mice came secretly by ni… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: While the warriors were sitting inside, the Mice came secretly by night to attack the town, and their spies crept up to the _estufa_. Who acts: warriors, Mice, spies. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the M
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 7

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While the warriors were sitting inside, the Mice came secretly by night to attack the town, and their spies crept up to the \_estufa\_.

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**Who acts:** warriors, Mice, spies · **What happens:** sit, come, attack, creep up · **To what, where:** town, estufa

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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, Mice, spies), 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:pg77804:5:7
# text = While the warriors were sitting inside, the Mice came secretly by night to attack the town, and their spies crept up to the _estufa_.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Mice	Mice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	spies	spy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	estufa	estufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the warriors |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Mice |  |  |  | night | secretly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **attack** | to-infinitive | the Mice *not said here* | the town |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient |
| 4 | **creep up** | past | warriors's spies |  | the estufa |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to estufa=Destination |

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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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