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description: When Ees-tée-ah Muts entered she seemed very glad to see him, and pretended to know nothing of what had befallen him. Who acts: Muts, wife. 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 th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 73

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When Ees-tée-ah Muts entered she seemed very glad to see him, and pretended to know nothing of what had befallen him.

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**Who acts:** Muts, wife · **What happens:** enter, seem, see, pretend, know, befall · **To what, where:** Ees tée, Acoma, nothing

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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 (Muts, wife), 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:pg77804:28:73
# text = When Ees-tée-ah Muts entered she seemed very glad to see him, and pretended to know nothing of what had befallen him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	Ees	Ees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Muts | Ees tée |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | Acoma |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pretend** | past | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **befall** | past · perfect · passive |  | Acoma |  |  |  | what *nsubj:pass* | 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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