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title: But the Rabbit threw off his blanket, and tightened his _taparabo_,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Rabbit threw off his blanket, and tightened his _taparabo_, and said: “Pooh! Who acts: Rabbit. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 28

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But the Rabbit threw off his blanket, and tightened his \_taparabo\_, and said: “Pooh!

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** throw off, tighten, say · **To what, where:** blanket, taparabo, Pooh · **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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit), 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:pg77804:16:28
# text = But the Rabbit threw off his blanket, and tightened his _taparabo_, and said: “Pooh!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tightened	tighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	taparabo	taparabo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw off** | past | the Rabbit | Rabbit's blanket |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme |
| 2 | **tighten** | participle | the Rabbit *not said here* | Rabbit's taparabo |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent taparabo=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Rabbit *not said here* | Pooh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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