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title: So the Little-Blue-Fox started toward the house; but getting behind… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Little-Blue-Fox started toward the house; but getting behind a small hill, he ran away with fast feet. Who acts: Little, fox. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 29

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So the Little-Blue-Fox started toward the house; but getting behind a small hill, he ran away with fast feet.

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**Who acts:** Little, fox · **What happens:** start, get, run away · **To what, where:** small hill

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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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, fox), 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:pg77804:33:29
# text = So the Little-Blue-Fox started toward the house; but getting behind a small hill, he ran away with fast feet.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the Little and Fox |  |  |  |  | toward the house | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | the Little and Fox *not said here* |  |  | a small hill |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run away** | past | fox |  |  |  |  | with fast feet; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with foot=Material |

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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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