--- title: _” shouted the Captain of the Little Black Ants, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: _” shouted the Captain of the Little Black Ants, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo opened his eyes; but he could see nothing below. Who acts: Kahp. 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 tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/109/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/) / 109 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 109 \_” shouted the Captain of the Little Black Ants, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo opened his eyes; but he could see nothing below. **Who acts:** Kahp · **What happens:** shout, open, see · **To what, where:** Captain, eyes, nothing 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 (Kahp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:24:112 # text = _” shouted the Captain of the Little Black Ants, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo opened his eyes; but he could see nothing below. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 3 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Black Black ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Ants Ant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 13 Kahp Kahp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 óo óo NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 yoo yoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 list _ _ 20 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 28 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 obj _ _ 29 below below ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | | the Captain of the Black Ants | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Topic | | 2 | **open** *in a quote* | past | Kahp óo yoo | Kahp's eyes | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | could | Kahp | nothing | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/110/) - ↑ back to [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/)