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title: The old Wolf was very careful, and had almost finished her soup with… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The old Wolf was very careful, and had almost finished her soup without spilling a drop. Who acts: old Wolf. 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 c
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 158

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The old Wolf was very careful, and had almost finished her soup without spilling a drop.

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**Who acts:** old Wolf · **What happens:** be, finish, spill · **To what, where:** soup, drop

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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 (old Wolf), 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:pg77804:27:161
# text = The old Wolf was very careful, and had almost finished her soup without spilling a drop.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	spilling	spill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the old Wolf |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | past · perfect | the old Wolf *not said here* | \_'s soup |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality soup=Eventuality |
| 3 | **spill** | gerund | the old Wolf *not said here* | a drop |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drop=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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