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title: There was a pond close by, with many ducks on it; and making herself… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a pond close by, with many ducks on it; and making herself very little, she went and hid under the left wing of the duck with a blue head. Who acts: pond, woman. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-an
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 86

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There was a pond close by, with many ducks on it; and making herself very little, she went and hid under the left wing of the duck with a blue head.

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**Who acts:** pond, woman · **What happens:** be, make, go, hide · **To what, where:** woman, left wing

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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 Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pond, woman), 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:pg77804:15:90
# text = There was a pond close by, with many ducks on it; and making herself very little, she went and hid under the left wing of the duck with a blue head.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a pond and many ducks on táh |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | woman *not said here* | woman |  |  |  | little *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product |
| 3 | **go** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | past | woman *not said here* |  |  | the left wing of the duck with a blue head |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wing=Location |

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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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