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description: When all the Tée-wahn warriors had fallen asleep, the Mice came stealing down the big ladder into the room, and creeping from sleeper to sleeper, they gnawed every bowstring and cut the feathers from the arrows and the strap of every sling. Who acts: Tée wahn warriors, Mice, warriors. A sentence of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 8

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When all the Tée-wahn warriors had fallen asleep, the Mice came stealing down the big ladder into the room, and creeping from sleeper to sleeper, they gnawed every bowstring and cut the feathers from the arrows and the strap of every sling.

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**Who acts:** Tée wahn warriors, Mice, warriors · **What happens:** fall, come, steal, creep, gnaw, cut · **To what, where:** room, sleeper, bowstring, feathers, arrows

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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, Mice, 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:pg77804:5:8
# text = When all the Tée-wahn warriors had fallen asleep, the Mice came stealing down the big ladder into the room, and creeping from sleeper to sleeper, they gnawed every bowstring and cut the feathers from the arrows and the strap of every sling.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	wahn	wahn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Mice	Mice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	bowstring	bowstring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | all Tée wahn warriors |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Mice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **steal** | gerund | the Mice *not said here* |  |  | the room |  | down the big ladder | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **creep** | gerund | the Mice *not said here* |  |  | sleeper |  | to sleeper | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sleeper=Destination |
| 5 | **gnaw** | past | warriors *= warrior* | every bowstring |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowstring=Patient |
| 6 | **cut** | past | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | the feathers |  | the arrows and the strap of every sling |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset feather=Product from arrow=Material |

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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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