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title: _” (No) said the War-Captain of the Big Red Ants. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _” (No) said the War-Captain of the Big Red Ants. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 93

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\_” (No) said the War-Captain of the Big Red Ants.

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**What happens:** say · **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: 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:pg77804:24:95
# text = _” (No) said the War-Captain of the Big Red Ants.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
14	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Ants	Ant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | the War Captain of the Big Red Ants *ccomp* | 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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