--- title: At last, very tired and with his tongue out, he came in sight of the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: At last, very tired and with his tongue out, he came in sight of the starting-point, and there was Pee-oo-ée-deh, sitting at the door of his house, smoothing his hair. Who acts: Pee, tired, oo ée deh. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pee, tired, oo ée deh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:16:49 # text = At last, very tired and with his tongue out, he came in sight of the starting-point, and there was Pee-oo-ée-deh, sitting at the door of his house, smoothing his hair. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 starting starting NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 25 Pee pee NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ée ée NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 deh deh NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 smoothing smooth VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 conj _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Pee | | | sight of the starting point | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | | 2 | **is a** | past | tired with Pee's tongue | oo ée deh | | | | Pee *nsubj* | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | oo ée deh *not said here* | | | the door of Pee's house | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | | 4 | **smooth** | gerund | oo ée deh *not said here* | Pee's hair | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 5 | **sight** | | | the starting point | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/50/) - ↑ back to [The Race of the Tails](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/)