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title: When she was gone Ees-tée-ah Muts began to ponder what she had said,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When she was gone Ees-tée-ah Muts began to ponder what she had said, and he feared that all was not well. Who acts: wife, Muts, husband, all. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, with its dependency tree and 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 12

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When she was gone Ees-tée-ah Muts began to ponder what she had said, and he feared that all was not well.

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**Who acts:** wife, Muts, husband, all · **What happens:** be, begin, ponder, say, fear, not be · **To what, where:** Ees tée · **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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Muts, husband, all), 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:pg77804:28:12
# text = When she was gone Ees-tée-ah Muts began to ponder what she had said, and he feared that all was not well.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
5	Ees	Ees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	ponder	ponder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | Ees tée *conj*; gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Muts | Ees tée *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ponder** | to-infinitive | Muts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | wife |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **fear** | past | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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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