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title: “_Ah-bóo_ [poor thing], little fish,” said the boy; and picking it u… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “_Ah-bóo_ [poor thing], little fish,” said the boy; and picking it up, he put it in his gourd canteen of water. Who acts: bóo, boy. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 91

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“\_Ah-bóo\_ \[poor thing\], little fish,” said the boy; and picking it up, he put it in his gourd canteen of water.

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**Who acts:** bóo, boy · **What happens:** say, pick up, put · **To what, where:** fish, gourd canteen · **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 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 (bóo, 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:pg77804:19:92
# text = “_Ah-bóo_ [poor thing], little fish,” said the boy; and picking it up, he put it in his gourd canteen of water.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bóo	bóo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	gourd	gourd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	canteen	canteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bóo and little fish |  |  |  |  | the boy *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pick up** | gerund | boy *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **put** | past | boy | fish |  | boy's gourd canteen of water |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in canteen=Destination |

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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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