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title: “Well,” said the Beaver, “I have been cutting trees here by the rive… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well,” said the Beaver, “I have been cutting trees here by the river ever since I was born, and I have no time to think about Fawns.” 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 d
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 127

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“Well,” said the Beaver, “I have been cutting trees here by the river ever since I was born, and I have no time to think about Fawns.”

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**Who acts:** Beaver · **What happens:** say, cut, bear, have, think · **To what, where:** trees, Beaver · **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 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:pg77804:27:130
# text = “Well,” said the Beaver, “I have been cutting trees here by the river ever since I was born, and I have no time to think about Fawns.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux	_	_
13	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
20	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Fawns	fawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Beaver |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cut** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | the Beaver *= beaver* | trees |  | here | ever | by the river | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product |
| 3 | **bear** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the Beaver *= beaver* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Beaver *= beaver* |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Beaver *= beaver* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Fawns | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fawn=Topic |

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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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