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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 21

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When it was time to go to the house of the Woodpeckers he called his wife and children to the fire, and lashed a burning stick under each of their arms, with the burning end pointing forward; and then he fixed himself in the same way.

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**Who acts:** fire, father, burning end · **What happens:** be, go, call, lash, burn, point · **To what, where:** time, house, wife, fire, burning stick, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Coyote and the Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, father, burning end), 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:pg77804:9:21
# text = When it was time to go to the house of the Woodpeckers he called his wife and children to the fire, and lashed a burning stick under each of their arms, with the burning end pointing forward; and then he fixed himself in the same way.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Woodpeckers	Woodpecker	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lashed	lash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
38	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
45	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | fire | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* |  |  | the house of the Woodpeckers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **call** | past | father | father's wife and children | the fire |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Topic to fire=Recipient |
| 4 | **lash** | past | father *not said here* | a burning stick |  | each of Woodpecker's arms | with the burning end |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Destination with end=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **point** | gerund | the burning end *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fix** | past | father | father |  | the same way | then |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |

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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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