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title: But soon the Wolf bent down and caught the trusting Deer by the thro… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But soon the Wolf bent down and caught the trusting Deer by the throat, and killed her. Who acts: 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 clause
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 39

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But soon the Wolf bent down and caught the trusting Deer by the throat, and killed her.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** bend down, catch, trust, kill · **To what, where:** Deer, tired

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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), 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:pg77804:27:40
# text = But soon the Wolf bent down and caught the trusting Deer by the throat, and killed her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend down** | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | down, soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trust** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* | Deer |  |  |  | by the throat | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | past | the Wolf *not said here* | tired |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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