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title: When they came to the shore the old Wolf was choking, coughing, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to the shore the old Wolf was choking, coughing, and crying, and so mad that she would not pay the Beaver as she had promised--and from that day to this the Beaver will never again ferry a Wolf across the river. Who acts: Wolf, old Wolf, Peé, Beaver. A sentence of «The man who married
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 135

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When they came to the shore the old Wolf was choking, coughing, and crying, and so mad that she would not pay the Beaver as she had promised--and from that day to this the Beaver will never again ferry a Wolf across the river.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, old Wolf, Peé, Beaver · **What happens:** come, choke, cough, cry, not pay, promise · **To what, where:** shore, Beaver, Wolf, river

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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, old Wolf, Peé, 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:pg77804:27:138
# text = When they came to the shore the old Wolf was choking, coughing, and crying, and so mad that she would not pay the Beaver as she had promised--and from that day to this the Beaver will never again ferry a Wolf across the river.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	again	again	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	ferry	ferry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	across	across	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Wolf |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **choke** | past · progressive | the old Wolf | the shore *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shore=Destination |
| 3 | **cough** | gerund | the old Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the old Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **pay** | would | Peé | the Beaver |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Asset |
| 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | Peé |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **ferry** | future | the Beaver | a Wolf |  | the river | again; never; day |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme across river=Trajectory |

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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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