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description: Still doubting, Ees-tée-ah Muts took the cup and ate of the blue corn-meal until he could eat no longer, and yet the acorn-cup was not empty. Who acts: Ees, acorn cup. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, wit
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 54

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Still doubting, Ees-tée-ah Muts took the cup and ate of the blue corn-meal until he could eat no longer, and yet the acorn-cup was not empty.

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**Who acts:** Ees, acorn cup · **What happens:** doubt, take, eat, not be · **To what, where:** cup

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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, acorn cup), 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:pg77804:28:54
# text = Still doubting, Ees-tée-ah Muts took the cup and ate of the blue corn-meal until he could eat no longer, and yet the acorn-cup was not empty.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	doubting	doubt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Ees	Ees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ate	ate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	acorn	acorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doubt** | gerund | Ees  tée *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Ees  tée | the cup and ate of the blue corn meal |  |  |  | Muts *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | could | Ees |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | the acorn cup |  |  |  | yet | empty *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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