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title: And it was so; for when Kahp-too-óo-yoo had eaten all he could, the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it was so; for when Kahp-too-óo-yoo had eaten all he could, the acorn-cup was still nearly full. Who acts: left, acorn cup. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, with its dependency tree and
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 102

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And it was so; for when Kahp-too-óo-yoo had eaten all he could, the acorn-cup was still nearly full.

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**Who acts:** left, acorn cup · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** Kahp

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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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (left, acorn cup), 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:pg77804:24:104
# text = And it was so; for when Kahp-too-óo-yoo had eaten all he could, the acorn-cup was still nearly full.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
8	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	óo	óo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	yoo	yoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	acorn	acorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | left |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past · perfect · passive |  | Kahp |  |  |  | óo yoo *nsubj:pass* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the acorn cup |  |  |  | still | full, nearly *property* | 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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