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title: Again the Little Black Ants pushed mightily against the sky, and the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Again the Little Black Ants pushed mightily against the sky, and the Big Red Ants pulled mightily from below; and the pine was driven another fourth of its length into the earth. Who acts: Black Ants, Big Red Ants. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 111

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Again the Little Black Ants pushed mightily against the sky, and the Big Red Ants pulled mightily from below; and the pine was driven another fourth of its length into the earth.

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**Who acts:** Black Ants, Big Red Ants · **What happens:** push, pull, drive · **To what, where:** pine, earth

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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 (Black Ants, Big Red Ants), 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:pg77804:24:114
# text = Again the Little Black Ants pushed mightily against the sky, and the Big Red Ants pulled mightily from below; and the pine was driven another fourth of its length into the earth.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	mightily	mightily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
15	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Ants	Ant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	mightily	mightily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	below	below	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past | the Black Ants |  |  |  | again | against the sky; mightily *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against sky=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | past | the Big Red Ants |  |  |  |  | mightily *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from below=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | past · passive |  | the pine |  | the earth |  | another fourth of pine's length *obj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme fourth=Destination |

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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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