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title: “Wolf-woman,” she answered as politely as she could, restraining her… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wolf-woman,” she answered as politely as she could, restraining her anger. Who acts: 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 138

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“Wolf-woman,” she answered as politely as she could, restraining her anger.

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**Who acts:** Peé · **What happens:** answer, restrain, anger · **To what, where:** Wolf woman, anger

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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 (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:pg77804:27:141
# text = “Wolf-woman,” she answered as politely as she could, restraining her anger.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	restraining	restrain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Peé | Wolf woman |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **restrain** | gerund | Peé *not said here* | Peé's anger |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer anger=Eventuality |
| 3 | **anger** |  | Peé |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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