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title: But he had never really found out how handsome he was, and so though… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But he had never really found out how handsome he was, and so thought little about girls anyhow, caring more to run fastest in the races and to kill the most game in the hunts. Who acts: Poo. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 14

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But he had never really found out how handsome he was, and so thought little about girls anyhow, caring more to run fastest in the races and to kill the most game in the hunts.

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**Who acts:** Poo · **What happens:** not find out, be, think, care, run, kill · **To what, where:** little girls, more, races, most game, hunts

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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 Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poo), 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:pg77804:22:14
# text = But he had never really found out how handsome he was, and so thought little about girls anyhow, caring more to run fastest in the races and to kill the most game in the hunts.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	advcl	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	_
34	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hunts	hunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find out** | past · perfect | Poo |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Poo |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | little girls |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme |
| 4 | **care** | gerund |  | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the races |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Trajectory |
| 6 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | the most game |  | the hunts |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

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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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