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title: But just as he was to turn west, up sprang a rabbit in front of him,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But just as he was to turn west, up sprang a rabbit in front of him, and taunted him, and went back in its hole, digging. Who acts: Pee. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 44

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But just as he was to turn west, up sprang a rabbit in front of him, and taunted him, and went back in its hole, digging.

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**Who acts:** Pee · **What happens:** be, spring, taunt, go back, dig · **To what, where:** rabbit, front, Pee, hole

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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 (Pee), 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:pg77804:16:44
# text = But just as he was to turn west, up sprang a rabbit in front of him, and taunted him, and went back in its hole, digging.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	west	west	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sprang	spring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	taunted	taunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Pee |  |  |  |  | turn, west *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring** | gerund | Pee *not said here* | a rabbit |  | front of Pee |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location rabbit=Theme |
| 3 | **taunt** | past |  | Pee |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **go back** | past |  |  |  | front's hole |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **dig** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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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