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title: After long coquetting in vain, the girls began to hate him as hard a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: After long coquetting in vain, the girls began to hate him as hard as before they had loved him. Who acts: girls. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 17

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After long coquetting in vain, the girls began to hate him as hard as before they had loved him.

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**Who acts:** girls · **What happens:** coquet, begin, hate, love · **To what, where:** vain, Poo

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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 (girls), 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:pg77804:22:17
# text = After long coquetting in vain, the girls began to hate him as hard as before they had loved him.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coquetting	coquet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hate	hate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coquet** | gerund | the girls *not said here* |  |  | vain |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hate** | to-infinitive | the girls *not said here* | Poo |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** | past · perfect | girls *= girl* | Poo |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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