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title: Soon all the armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants me… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon all the armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants met at the foot of the pine, and held a council. Who acts: armies. 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 tre
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 89

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Soon all the armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants met at the foot of the pine, and held a council.

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**Who acts:** armies · **What happens:** meet, hold · **To what, where:** foot, council

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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 (armies), 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:pg77804:24:91
# text = Soon all the armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants met at the foot of the pine, and held a council.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Ants	Ant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
13	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ants	Ant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | all armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants |  |  | the foot of the pine |  | soon *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | past | all armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants *not said here* | a council |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme |

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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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