--- title: “You Big Red Ants are stronger than we who are small,” said the War-… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “You Big Red Ants are stronger than we who are small,” said the War-Captain of the Little Black Ants, “and for that you ought to take the top of the tree to work.” Who acts: Big Red Ants, we, stronger, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big Red Ants, we, stronger, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:24:93 # text = “You Big Red Ants are stronger than we who are small,” said the War-Captain of the Little Black Ants, “and for that you ought to take the top of the tree to work.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Big Big PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 4 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Ants Ant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 nsubj _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Black Black ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Ants Ant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 obl _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Big Red Ants You | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | who *nsubj*; small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | stronger | | | | | the War Captain of the Black Ants *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | ought | you | the top of the tree | | | | for that | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent top=Theme for that=Beneficiary | | 5 | **work** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/92/) - ↑ back to [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/)