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description: _” cried the Captain; and when Kahp-too-óo-yoo opened his eyes he could just see the big, brown world. 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 tree and the prag
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 113

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\_” cried the Captain; and when Kahp-too-óo-yoo opened his eyes he could just see the big, brown world.

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**Who acts:** Kahp · **What happens:** cry, open, see · **To what, where:** Captain, eyes, big brown world · **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 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:24:116
# text = _” cried the Captain; and when Kahp-too-óo-yoo opened his eyes he could just see the big, brown world.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cried	cry	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
9	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	óo	óo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	yoo	yoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	list	_	_
16	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the Captain |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Topic |
| 2 | **open** *in a quote* | past | Kahp  óo yoo | Kahp's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | could | Kahp | the big brown world |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |

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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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