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title: Agostin waited, and presently the little bird came back, bringing an… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Agostin waited, and presently the little bird came back, bringing an acorn-cup full of water. Who acts: Agostin, little bird. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 43

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Agostin waited, and presently the little bird came back, bringing an acorn-cup full of water.

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**Who acts:** Agostin, little bird · **What happens:** wait, come back, bring · **To what, where:** acorn cup

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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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agostin, little bird), 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:pg77804:23:43
# text = Agostin waited, and presently the little bird came back, bringing an acorn-cup full of water.
1	Agostin	Agostin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	acorn	acorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | Agostin |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | past | the little bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | the little bird *not said here* | a acorn cup |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cup=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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