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title: When he found Kahp-too-óo-yoo there a prisoner, the Little Black Ant… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he found Kahp-too-óo-yoo there a prisoner, the Little Black Ant was astonished, and said: Who acts: Kahp, Little Black Ant. 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 an
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 80

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When he found Kahp-too-óo-yoo there a prisoner, the Little Black Ant was astonished, and said:

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**Who acts:** Kahp, Little Black Ant · **What happens:** find, be, say · **To what, where:** Kahp, prisoner · **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, Little Black Ant), 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:pg77804:24:82
# text = When he found Kahp-too-óo-yoo there a prisoner, the Little Black Ant was astonished, and said:
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	Kahp	Kahp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	óo	óo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	yoo	yoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ant	Ant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Kahp | Kahp |  | there |  | óo yoo *obl*; a prisoner *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent kahp=Theme prisoner=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Little Black Ant | a prisoner *not said here* |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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