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title: But when the little Antelope Boy sprang lightly across the line, far… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the little Antelope Boy sprang lightly across the line, far ahead of Deer-foot, their joy turned to mourning. Who acts: little Antelope Boy, feet. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy, with its depend
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 85

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But when the little Antelope Boy sprang lightly across the line, far ahead of Deer-foot, their joy turned to mourning.

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**Who acts:** little Antelope Boy, feet · **What happens:** spring, turn, joy · **To what, where:** line, joy, mourning

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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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Antelope Boy, feet), 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:pg77804:3:87
# text = But when the little Antelope Boy sprang lightly across the line, far ahead of Deer-foot, their joy turned to mourning.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Antelope	Antelope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | the little Antelope Boy |  |  | the line |  | of Deer foot and feet's joy; lightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across line=Trajectory |
| 2 | **turn** | participle |  | feet's joy *not said here* |  | mourning |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to mourning=Trajectory |
| 3 | **joy** |  | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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