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title: Then he knew that he had been deceived, and was very angry, but pret… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he knew that he had been deceived, and was very angry, but pretending not to care he ordered Ees-tée-ah Muts to go home, which the frightened hunter was very glad to do. Who acts: frog, Muts. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 36

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Then he knew that he had been deceived, and was very angry, but pretending not to care he ordered Ees-tée-ah Muts to go home, which the frightened hunter was very glad to do.

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**Who acts:** frog, Muts · **What happens:** know, deceive, be, pretend, not care, order · **To what, where:** frog, Ees · **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 (frog, Muts), 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:pg77804:28:36
# text = Then he knew that he had been deceived, and was very angry, but pretending not to care he ordered Ees-tée-ah Muts to go home, which the frightened hunter was very glad to do.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	Ees	Ees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	24	appos	_	_
27	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	vocative	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | frog |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **deceive** | past · perfect · passive |  | frog |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | frog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **care** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **order** | past | frog |  | Ees |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ees=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | frog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | Muts |  |  |  |  | the frightened hunter *nsubj*; glad *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | to-infinitive | Muts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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