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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 64

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Ees-tée-ah Muts seized a branch and swung over into the tree, and letting himself down from bough to bough, at last reached the ground in safety.

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**Who acts:** Ees, last · **What happens:** seize, swing over, let down, reach · **To what, where:** branch, tree, friend, bough, ground, safety

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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, last), 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:pg77804:28:64
# text = Ees-tée-ah Muts seized a branch and swung over into the tree, and letting himself down from bough to bough, at last reached the ground in safety.
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	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Ees and tée | a branch |  |  |  | Muts *nsubj* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 2 | **swing over** | past | Ees and tée *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  | over *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tree=Trajectory |
| 3 | **let down** | gerund | Ees and tée *not said here* | friend | bough |  |  | to bough | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to bough=Recipient |
| 4 | **reach** | past | last | the ground |  | safety |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |

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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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