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title: Then he counted _three_, and pulled greatly, so that his tail came o… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he counted _three_, and pulled greatly, so that his tail came off--and Sun-Arrow was moved a very little. Who acts: Badger, tail. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 91

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Then he counted \_three\_, and pulled greatly, so that his tail came off--and Sun-Arrow was moved a very little.

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**Who acts:** Badger, tail · **What happens:** count, pull, come off, move · **To what, where:** three, Sun

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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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, tail), 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:pg77804:26:92
# text = Then he counted _three_, and pulled greatly, so that his tail came off--and Sun-Arrow was moved a very little.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADV	RB	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | Badger | three |  |  | then |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | past |  |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come off** | past | Badger's tail |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | past · passive |  | Sun and Arrow |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |

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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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