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description: So the Wolf lost much time with her questions and with finding the trail again; but then she began to run harder than ever. Who acts: Wolf, treachery. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 102

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So the Wolf lost much time with her questions and with finding the trail again; but then she began to run harder than ever.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, treachery · **What happens:** lose, find, begin, run, question · **To what, where:** trail

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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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, treachery), 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:pg77804:27:104
# text = So the Wolf lost much time with her questions and with finding the trail again; but then she began to run harder than ever.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the Wolf |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* | the trail |  |  | again |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** | past | treachery |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run** | to-infinitive | treachery *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **question** |  | treachery |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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