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description: He hastily made a bow and arrows and soon killed a fat deer, which he brought and divided among the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants, thanking them for their kindness. Who acts: Kahp. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 118

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He hastily made a bow and arrows and soon killed a fat deer, which he brought and divided among the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants, thanking them for their kindness.

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**Who acts:** Kahp · **What happens:** make, kill, bring, divide, thank · **To what, where:** bow, fat deer, deer

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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:pg77804:24:121
# text = He hastily made a bow and arrows and soon killed a fat deer, which he brought and divided among the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants, thanking them for their kindness.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Ants	Ant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
28	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Ants	Ant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Kahp | a bow and arrows |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product |
| 2 | **kill** | past | Kahp *not said here* | a fat deer |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Kahp | a fat deer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **divide** | past | Kahp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | Kahp *not said here* |  | deer |  |  | for deer's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for kindness=Attribute |

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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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