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title: When the wicked Lake-Man saw the boy coming, he was very angry, for… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the wicked Lake-Man saw the boy coming, he was very angry, for he had never expected him to return from that dangerous mission. Who acts: wicked Lake Man, boy. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 87

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When the wicked Lake-Man saw the boy coming, he was very angry, for he had never expected him to return from that dangerous mission.

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**Who acts:** wicked Lake Man, boy · **What happens:** see, come, be, not expect, return · **To what, where:** boy, dangerous mission

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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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked Lake Man, boy), 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:pg77804:19:88
# text = When the wicked Lake-Man saw the boy coming, he was very angry, for he had never expected him to return from that dangerous mission.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the wicked Lake Man | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **expect** | past · perfect · passive |  | boy |  |  |  | ice *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  | that dangerous mission |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mission=Initial\_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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