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title: When this was done, the Mice raised a terrible war-whoop and rushed… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When this was done, the Mice raised a terrible war-whoop and rushed upon the warriors, brandishing their spears. Who acts: Mice. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 9

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When this was done, the Mice raised a terrible war-whoop and rushed upon the warriors, brandishing their spears.

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**Who acts:** Mice · **What happens:** do, raise, rush, brandish · **To what, where:** this, terrible war whoop, warriors, spears

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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 (Mice), 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:pg77804:5:9
# text = When this was done, the Mice raised a terrible war-whoop and rushed upon the warriors, brandishing their spears.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Mice	Mice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	brandishing	brandish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **raise** | past | the Mice | a terrible war whoop |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whoop=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | past | the Mice *not said here* |  |  | the warriors |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon warrior=Trajectory |
| 4 | **brandish** | gerund | the Mice *not said here* | warriors's spears |  |  |  |  | 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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