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title: But the Beaver did not notice her, and kept on walking around the tr… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Beaver did not notice her, and kept on walking around the tree, cutting it and grunting, “_Ah-oó-mah! Who acts: Beaver. 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 dependency tree and the pr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 121

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But the Beaver did not notice her, and kept on walking around the tree, cutting it and grunting, “\_Ah-oó-mah!

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**Who acts:** Beaver · **What happens:** not notice, keep, cut, grunt · **To what, where:** voice, walking, tree

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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 (Beaver), 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:pg77804:27:123
# text = But the Beaver did not notice her, and kept on walking around the tree, cutting it and grunting, “_Ah-oó-mah!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grunting	grunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	oó	oó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	mah	mah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | the Beaver | voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **keep** | participle | the Beaver *not said here* |  |  | walking around the tree |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on walking=Location |
| 3 | **cut** | gerund | the Beaver *not said here* | tree |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **grunt** | gerund | the Beaver *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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