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title: Very early that night Ees-tée-ah Muts pretended to go to sleep, but… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Very early that night Ees-tée-ah Muts pretended to go to sleep, but he was really very wide awake. Who acts: Muts, 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 pragmatics of 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 15

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Very early that night Ees-tée-ah Muts pretended to go to sleep, but he was really very wide awake.

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**Who acts:** Muts, husband · **What happens:** pretend, go, be · **To what, where:** Ees tée, sleep

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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 (Muts, 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:pg77804:28:15
# text = Very early that night Ees-tée-ah Muts pretended to go to sleep, but he was really very wide awake.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	Ees	Ees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	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	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | Muts | Ees tée *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Muts *not said here* |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | husband |  |  |  |  | awake, wide *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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