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title: But if I had left the Locust alive, and bothered her long enough, sh… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if I had left the Locust alive, and bothered her long enough, she would have shown me. Who acts: I, Locust. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 29

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But if I had left the Locust alive, and bothered her long enough, she would have shown me.

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**Who acts:** I, Locust · **What happens:** leave, bother, show · **To what, where:** Locust, me

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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 Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Locust), 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:pg77804:14:29
# text = But if I had left the Locust alive, and bothered her long enough, she would have shown me.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Locust	Locust	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bothered	bother	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I | the Locust |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent locust=Theme |
| 2 | **bother** | past |  | Locust |  |  |  | enough, long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 3 | **show** | would · perfect | Locust |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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