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title: Ees-tée-ah Muts crept softly up and peered in. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ees-tée-ah Muts crept softly up and peered in. Who acts: Ees. 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 every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 26

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Ees-tée-ah Muts crept softly up and peered in.

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**Who acts:** Ees · **What happens:** creep, peer in

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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 (Ees), 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:pg77804:28:26
# text = Ees-tée-ah Muts crept softly up and peered in.
1	Ees	ee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	peered	peer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | Ees and tée |  |  |  |  | Muts *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **peer in** | participle | Ees and tée *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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