--- title: When Kahp-too-óo-yoo saw, his heart was heavy, and he thought: “But… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: When Kahp-too-óo-yoo saw, his heart was heavy, and he thought: “But what good will that very little do me, for I am dying of hunger and thirst?” Who acts: heart, Ant, that. 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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 (heart, Ant, that), 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:pg77804:24:100 # text = When Kahp-too-óo-yoo saw, his heart was heavy, and he thought: “But what good will that very little do me, for I am dying of hunger and thirst?” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 2 Kahp Kahp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 óo óo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 list _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 yoo yoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 saw saw NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 But but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 nsubj _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Ant's heart | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ant | Kahp yoo saw | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | that | | Ant | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | | 4 | **die** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Ant | | | | | of hunger and thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/99/) - ↑ back to [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/)