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title: At last a young Squirrel came running along the ledge, and, seeing h… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last a young Squirrel came running along the ledge, and, seeing him, ran back to its mother, crying: Who acts: seeing. 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 ev
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 41

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At last a young Squirrel came running along the ledge, and, seeing him, ran back to its mother, crying:

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**Who acts:** seeing · **What happens:** come, run, see, run back, cry · **To what, where:** ledge, frog

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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 (seeing), 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:pg77804:28:41
# text = At last a young Squirrel came running along the ledge, and, seeing him, ran back to its mother, crying:
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
17	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at a last young Squirrel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at squirrel=Location |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | the ledge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ledge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | frog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **run back** | past | seeing |  |  |  |  | to ledge's mother *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | seeing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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