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title: Then Agostin’s heart sank, and he thought: “Alas! what good will tha… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Agostin’s heart sank, and he thought: “Alas! what good will that drop do me?” Who acts: heart, drop. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 44

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Then Agostin’s heart sank, and he thought: “Alas! what good will that drop do me?”

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**Who acts:** heart, drop · **What happens:** sink, think, do · **To what, where:** heart · **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 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 (heart, drop), 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:pg77804:23:44
# text = Then Agostin’s heart sank, and he thought: “Alas! what good will that drop do me?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Agostin	Agostin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | Agostin's heart |  |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | that drop |  | heart |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |

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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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