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title: He was a great hunter and did many remarkable things, but there was… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a great hunter and did many remarkable things, but there was once a time when all his courage and strength were of no avail,--when but for the help of a little squirrel he would have perished miserably. Who acts: lad, courage. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 3

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He was a great hunter and did many remarkable things, but there was once a time when all his courage and strength were of no avail,--when but for the help of a little squirrel he would have perished miserably.

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**Who acts:** lad, courage · **What happens:** be, do, perish, help · **To what, where:** great hunter, many remarkable things, lad, little squirrel

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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 (lad, courage), 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:pg77804:28:3
# text = He was a great hunter and did many remarkable things, but there was once a time when all his courage and strength were of no avail,--when but for the help of a little squirrel he would have perished miserably.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
42	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
43	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | lad | a great hunter and no avail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | lad *not said here* | many remarkable things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | lad's courage and strength |  |  |  |  | of no avail | tree rules |
| 4 | **perish** | would · perfect · passive |  | lad |  |  |  | for the help of a little squirrel; miserably *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** |  |  | a little squirrel |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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