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title: Presently came the friend, very hot and tired, and with empty hands;… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently came the friend, very hot and tired, and with empty hands; and seeing the deer, he was pinched with jealousy. Who acts: friend. 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 dependenc
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 16

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Presently came the friend, very hot and tired, and with empty hands; and seeing the deer, he was pinched with jealousy.

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**Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** come, see, pinch · **To what, where:** deer, friend

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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 (friend), 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:pg77804:24:16
# text = Presently came the friend, very hot and tired, and with empty hands; and seeing the deer, he was pinched with jealousy.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	pinched	pinch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the friend |  |  |  |  | with empty hands; presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | the deer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pinch** | past · passive |  | friend |  |  |  | with jealousy | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with jealousy=Instrument |

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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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