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title: “Well, wait then till I cut around the tree three times more,” said… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, wait then till I cut around the tree three times more,” said the Beaver; and he made her wait. Who acts: Beaver, Peé. 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 pragm
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 130

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“Well, wait then till I cut around the tree three times more,” said the Beaver; and he made her wait.

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**Who acts:** Beaver, Peé · **What happens:** wait, cut, say, make · **To what, where:** more, tree, Peé · **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, Peé), 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:pg77804:27:133
# text = “Well, wait then till I cut around the tree three times more,” said the Beaver; and he made her wait.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** *in a quote* | present | the Beaver *= beaver* | more  three times |  | the tree |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Product |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Beaver |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | past | Beaver | Peé |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wait** | infinitive | Peé *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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