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title: Again the Little Black Ants pushed and the Big Red Ants pulled, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Again the Little Black Ants pushed and the Big Red Ants pulled, and this time the tree was driven clear out of sight, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo was left sitting on the ground. Who acts: Black Ants, Big Red Ants, Kahp. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Ch
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 117

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Again the Little Black Ants pushed and the Big Red Ants pulled, and this time the tree was driven clear out of sight, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo was left sitting on the ground.

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**Who acts:** Black Ants, Big Red Ants, Kahp · **What happens:** push, pull, drive, leave, sit · **To what, where:** tree, Kahp, ground

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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, 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:pg77804:24:120
# text = Again the Little Black Ants pushed and the Big Red Ants pulled, and this time the tree was driven clear out of sight, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo was left sitting on the ground.
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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
10	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ants	Ant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	óo	óo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	yoo	yoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
36	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	xcomp	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	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 |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull** | past | the Big Red Ants |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | past · passive |  | the tree |  |  | time | clear *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 4 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Kahp |  |  |  | óo yoo *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | Kahp *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |

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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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