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title: But when he came to the west, a rabbit sprang up ahead of him, and m… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he came to the west, a rabbit sprang up ahead of him, and mocked him, and went again under the ground. Who acts: Pee, 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 th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 47

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But when he came to the west, a rabbit sprang up ahead of him, and mocked him, and went again under the ground.

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**Who acts:** Pee, rabbit · **What happens:** come, spring up, mock, go · **To what, where:** rabbit, west, Pee, ground

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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, 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:pg77804:16:47
# text = But when he came to the west, a rabbit sprang up ahead of him, and mocked him, and went again under the ground.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	sprang	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	mocked	mock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Pee | a rabbit |  | the west |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to west=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **spring up** | gerund | a rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Pee; ahead *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mock** | past | Pee *not said here* | Pee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the ground | again |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under ground=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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