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title: But when his wife returned with water, he said not a word, keeping o… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when his wife returned with water, he said not a word, keeping only a sharp lookout to see what would come. Who acts: wife, husband. 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 the p
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 14

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But when his wife returned with water, he said not a word, keeping only a sharp lookout to see what would come.

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**Who acts:** wife, husband · **What happens:** return, not say, keep, see, come · **To what, where:** word, sharp lookout · **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, husband), 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:pg77804:28:14
# text = But when his wife returned with water, he said not a word, keeping only a sharp lookout to see what would come.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	ccomp	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lookout	lookout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | husband's wife |  |  |  |  | with water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | husband | a word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund |  | a sharp lookout |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lookout=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | would |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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